Try Baker & Boyd's Out of Bounds: Sports, Media, and the Politics of Identity which devotes an entire chapter to this issue.
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>From: scott hutchins <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sep 4, 2010 5:04 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [SCREEN-L] commentary on The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight
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>I remember reading a passage in grad school about the female audience
>response to _The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight_. When I discovered that
>this title led to a redlink on Wikipedia, I started working on one went
>looking through the two books I where I thought I might have read this
>(Jancovich's _The Place of the Audience_ and Tsivian's _Early Cinema in
>Russia_, but I didn't find it. I remember the author used this to
>launch into an essay about women audiences enjoying seeing Rudolph
>Valentino topless and getting beaten.
>
>Can anyone remind me what book this is?
>
>Thnak you,
>
>Scott
>
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