The Best of Trevor Lynch

<p>Since 2001 Trevor Lynch has garnered a fervent following for his frankly Right-wing treatment of philosophical political racial and sexual themes in film and television. <em>The Best of Trevor Lynch</em> collects sixteen of his most important essays covering David Lean's <em>The Bridge on the River Kwai</em> <em>Lawrence of Arabia</em> and <em>Doctor Zhivago</em> Akria Kurosawa's <em>Rashomon</em> Federico Fellini's <em>La Dolce Vita</em> Luchino Visconti's <em>The Leopard</em> Sergio Leone's <em>Once Upon a Time in the West</em> David Lynch's <em>Blue Velvet</em> John Ford's <em>The Searchers</em> and <em>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance</em> Christopher Nolan's <em>The Dark Knight Trilogy</em> David Fincher's <em>Fight Club</em> Paul Schrader's <em>Mishima</em> Sidney Lumet's <em>Network</em> Quentin Tarrantino's <em>Pulp Fiction</em> and Zack Snyder's <em>Watchmen</em>.</p><p></p><p>Trevor Lynch is a master of using philosophy to illuminate films and films to illuminate philosophy: Plato Hegel and Kojève to interpret <em>Pulp Fiction</em>; Heidegger Nietzsche and Traditionalism to understand <em>The Dark Knight Trilogy</em>; Carl Schmitt and René Girard to make sense of <em>Lawrence of Arabia</em> and so forth one <em>tour de force</em> after another. This volume demonstrates why Trevor Lynch has inspired a whole school of New Right cultural criticism. I give it four stars.</p><p></p><p>-Derek Hawthorne author of <em>Being and </em>The Birds<em> or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heidegger (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) </em> </p>