(To be filial about it) Iowa's own Charles F.(Rick) Altman has done a lot of work on this subject. A good place to start is his piece called on the Cricket on the Harth (entitled something like Griffith, Eisenstein and Film Theory today) in the South Atlantic Quaterly a few years back. Robert C. Allen has also dfone al ot of work on the relation between film and Vaudeville. Finally there is a great chapeter in Noel Bruch's *Life To Those Shadows" and the development of multisghot liniar narratives in the cinema and the passion play and the vaudeville chase. good luck. lgs