Instructor: Greg Lyons

Biography: Greg Lyons earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Texas at Austin. For twenty years, he served as Professor of English at COCC. For six years, he coordinated a college study-abroad program with sites in Mexico, Costa Rica, London, and Florence, where he taught for two quarters. Beginning in the 1990s, he designed several 4-credit Popular Culture courses, including HUM 265, and Film Noir, which he taught four times. In addition, he studied for a month at the British Film Institute in London and presented conference papers on such topics as "Mildred Pierce: From Novel to Film," "Production Process in The Third Man," "Desert Noir" and "The Moral Women in Film Noir." Over the years, he developed three public film series and presented lectures analyzing directors, actors, and cinematographers of the classic noir period, as well as more recent examples of "neo-noir" cinema.

Classes by this instructor

HUM 261: Pop-Culture-Science Fiction

This course focuses on the significance of science, technology, and on such topics as the idea of the future and the "limits of the human" as revealed in popular culture through genres such as fiction, film, music, comics, anime and manga, and advertising. This is a non-credit Community Education class. You will not receive college credit.
July 1, 2024 to August 1, 2024 | 3:15pm-6:00pm | Prineville