It’s not everyday students are immersed into a universe running way from body snatching aliens, defeating monsters from mars, experimenting chemicals on animals, and taking a trip to the moon in a space capsule. However, Instructor Glenn Lovell takes his students beyond the confines of earth into a world only limited by the imagination. Lovell teaches F/TV-041, science fiction, in room ATC 120 and said that sci-fi is one of his favorite genres. He grew up during the “sci-fi generation” when “critics fell in love with sci-fi and horror. “Psycho,” by Alfred Hitchcock, is his favorite film. Not only is he knowledgeable about films, he was also a movie critic for the San Jose Mercury news and has interviewed some of the greatest Hollywood directors and producers such as Howard Hawks, George Lukas, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and Ray Bradbury. One of Lovell’s memorable interviews was the “colorful” Tarantino during his early days of film making. In an article Lovell wrote for the Mercury News in 1992, Tarantino said, ”I write like an actor acts. What I do is just get the characters talking to each other and jot down what they say. It’s like I’m playing the parts. I’m good at dialogue. I like word plays. I just have a good memory. It’s not so much jotting down the exact things I overhear at Denny’s, but the rhythm in which things are said.” Lovell’s experiences and passion for film further enhances the classroom experience students receive. Some of the reasons why Lovell likes to teach at De Anza College is because he is allowed to teach what he feels is important, but not able to in other colleges. “I like the fact that it’s an intimate campus,” said Lovell, and adds that he also likes how gets to learn from the students. Lovell will continue to teach film in the spring quarter with a new class he looks forward to, F/TV-043. He will get in depth with two Hollywood directors David “Sam” Peckinpah and Tarantino because of their controversial styles involving blood, gore, and violence. This course will not be a typical class memorizing dates and terms but more about the personality. “I like to put a film maker in context and take a close look at the film maker that influenced him or her.” Lovell is also finishing up a book that he has worked on off and on for about 10 years about John Sturges “If you teach something you’re passionate about, it’s not work. It’s a good time,” said Lovell.