How to Build a Great Screenplay

As founding director of the graduate screenwriting program at the University of Southern California, David Howard has taught the authors of some of the most successful movies of our time. Now, in HOW TO BUILD A GREAT SCREENPLAY, he synthesizes years of teaching into a thorough and profound curriculum in storytelling - a way to structure any kind of screenplay for maximum dramatic effect. Chapters include: - Where the Antagonist? - Main Character or Ensemble Story? - Six Types of Characters - Screen Time and Drama - How to Wave in Subplots The book concludes with analysis of seven very different bu successful movies, including Octobers Sky, American Beauty, The Sixth Sense and Pulp Fiction.