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About Anthony Birch
Anthony Birch, Ph.D. has taught Business Ethics, Introduction to Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, and Introduction to Philosophy at a number of colleges and universities. He is the co-author of How to Ace Your Online Course, available at Amazon.

Random Comments on the Arts and Popular Culture

June 1, 2019 Anthony Birch 0

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 […]

Moral Compass – Your Initial Settings

March 15, 2019 Anthony Birch 0

Narrative Structures in Films: A Mindmap

March 3, 2019 Anthony Birch 0

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 with Albert Einstein at Princeton University in 1938

Thomas Mann on film: Text from “The Magic Mountain”

March 2, 2019 Anthony Birch 0

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 […]

Business Ethics Mind Map

Basic Global Business Ethics in 20 Minutes

December 22, 2018 Anthony Birch 0

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

December 17, 2018 Anthony Birch 0

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

December 7, 2018 Anthony Birch 0

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, […]

Image from Lifeboat (1944)

200+ Great Films

November 30, 2018 Anthony Birch 0

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 […]

Predicted vs. Observed temperatures

Global Warming: An Overview

November 24, 2018 Anthony Birch 0

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

November 23, 2018 Anthony Birch 0

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 […]

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