Random Comments on the Arts and Popular Culture
Archie Horror – Who Knew? Stopped in the Library yesterday. Spied a comic on the “Take One — Leave One” shelf. “Afterlife Archie” from ArchieHorror.com, made […]
Articles by Anthony Birch
Narrative Structures in Films: A Mindmap
Narrative Structures in Films The diagram indicates relationships among various factors present in the context of film narratives. Scroll through the text below or click […]
Thomas Mann on film: Text from “The Magic Mountain”
REMARKS by Anthony Birch, Ph.D. The passage reproduced below, from The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, is famous in film studies and rightfully so; it […]
Basic Global Business Ethics in 20 Minutes
Basic Global Business Ethics in 20 Minutes Note: This is a very academic approach. Users who want quick and easy answers will be disappointed. It usually […]
The Moral Responsibilities of Multinational Corporations
Use this link to take you to a YouTube video on the moral responsibilities of multinational corporations. This presentation is academic in nature, using a […]
Lifeboat – Film Genius without Spectacle
This tour de force gives the auteur theory meaning. The visual art of this film spells “Intellectual European Auteur” — one would never guess “Alfred Hitchcock, […]
200+ Great Films
RECOMMENDED FILMS This set of lists makes it pretty easy to find a good film: if it’s on one of these lists, chances are you […]
Global Warming: An Overview
Use this link to open a page from the old MindTools site, which contains a slideshow that requires Flash to run on your browser. As […]
Mistakes in Film Criticism
1. THE AUTEUR THEORY. An idea popularized some decades ago by French intellectuals — basically, the idea that the meanings of films can be derived from their […]