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) ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite