<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>
