Ideological and Technological Determinism in Deep-Space Cinema Images: Issues in Ideology, Technological History, and Aesthetics

With this strategy, it may be possible to suggest by extension some more specificity and substance to the more general issues vexing current cinema theory and history.5 Barry Salt's efforts seem to have a similar motivation in that, even given the limitations on his work, he is trying to test theory with observation of actual films.' Comolli's most apparent contribution, in addition to a materialist critique of Bazin, is his call for studying films within their ideological and economic settings-using the term "ideology" to refer to the basic world view and assumptions that reside within and underpin a film work.