title: Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay
author:  Andrew Horton 
description: <div>"I have been searching for a book such as Horton's for years&#151;and finally it has arrived. Horton's penetrating analysis and graceful writing style open up the key topic of characterization as no other book has. . . . I recommend it highly."&#151;Paul Lucey, University of Southern California</div>
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  Writing the Character­Centered Screenplay
  Updated and Expanded Edition
  Andrew Horton
  
    
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  University of California Press
  Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
  University of California Press, Ltd.
  London, England
  Second Paperback Edition 1999
  Copyright ©1994, 1999 by The Regents of the University of California
  Library of Congress Cataloging­in­Publication Data
  Horton, Andrew
  Writing the character­centered screenplay/Andrew Horton. 
  p.   cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0­520­22165­6 (alk. paper) 
  1. Motion picture authorship.   2. Motion picture plays— 
  Technique.   3. Characters and characteristics in motion
  pictures.   I. Title.
  PNI996.H67    1994
  808.2'3—dc20                                                    93­37307 
                                                                                       CIP
  Printed in the United States of America
  08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99
  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
  The paper used in this publication meets the min