Patrick Lucanio, Ph.D.

Dr. Lucanio at the camera

e-mail lucaniop@lanecc.edu

or cinepat@comcast.net

Dr. Lucanio's Schedule • Winter 2010

Office • Wednesday 9:30 - 10:30

And by Appointment

210 Building 17 (Forum) • Lane Community College

 

MONSTERS FROM THE ID
Patrick Lucanio (Loo-can-ee-o) holds a doctorate in telecommunication and film from the University of Oregon where he once served as a visiting professor of film studies teaching film history and science fiction and horror films.  He also holds master's degrees in humanities and one in film history.  He has taught at the university level for 20 years including 17 years at Western Oregon University where in addition to teaching writing and literature he served two years as director of student media, advising a student television station, newspaper, and literary journal.  Professionally, Dr. Lucanio has been a newspaper reporter and public high school teacher.  He has authored numerous articles on film history and genre studies.  He is the author of Them or Us, a scholarly analysis of 1950s monster movies, and With Fire and Sword, the first historical treatise of "peplum" films, i.e., foreign-made films featuring American body-builders.  Recently he co-authored with longtime friend and colleague Gary Coville three works on genre history: American Science Fiction Television Series of the 1950s; Jack the Ripper: His Life and Crimes in Popular Entertainment; and Smokin' Rockets: The Romance of Technology in Film, Radio and Television in the 1950s.

Currently, Dr. Lucanio edits Radiogram, a 16-page monthly newsletter of the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy (SPERDVAC) based in Los Angeles.   Although Dr. Lucanio specializes in film and literary theory and criticism, he also applies such knowledge to creative works.  He has taught motion picture production, scriptwriting, and video production at both the University of Oregon and Western Oregon University.  He has served as technical adviser on production techniques for various student and independent productions.  He has written and directed stage plays, and in 2000 he produced a feature-length pastiche of 1950s science fiction films titled Killers from Mars, a work that he has dubbed "the first 1950s science fiction thriller since 1950."  Recently he served as on-camera contributor to the independent documentary Monsters from the Id, a history of 1950s science fiction films.  A trailer and production information can be found at http://www.monstersfromtheid.net.