Joshua Hirsch comments:
"On the other hand, wasn't a preoccupation with machinery a characteristic of
much early modernism, including the Soviet avant-garde?"
 
It was.  But also later modernism as well--the interaction/interrelation
of humans and machines is a common theme in the works of Thomas Pynchon,
although their emphasis has shifted greatly from V. through GRAVITY'S
RAINBOW and (now) MASON & DIXON.  (Realizing that this is leading us away
from film, per se)
 
Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
 
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