My thanks to Donald Larsson for expanding upon my comments on the subject of levels of reference to prior film, literature, myth, etc. My interest in this issue grows out of a study of Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train" where I was very impressed by commentary in reviews about Jarmusch's debt to the Japanese director Uzo, but I could find little to back up my sense that there was a lot going on in the film that had to do with more literary sources feeding into social commentary, especially on the racial issue. Jarmusch seems to delight in importing motifs and references from literature and music as well as film. I appreciate the way others on the SCREEN-L are expanding our horizons about the many ways in which intertextual references show up or creep into films. Dan Gribbin Ferrum College Ferrum, VA 24088 [log in to unmask]