Thanks everyone.  Miriam Hansen's _Babel and Babylon_ is definitely it, 
which means I have a photocopy of the chapter lying around somewhere, as 
it's not on my bookshelf.


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Catherine Grant wrote:

> Miriam Hansen's Babel and Babylon: spectatorship in American silent 
> film
> [1994] (
> 
> http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8nFG8zMWI-0C&lpg=PA1&dq=Miriam%20Hansen%20The%20Corbett-Fitzsimmons%20Fight&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
> )
>
> It's also mentioned in Dan Streible's Fight Pictures: a history of 
> boxing
> and early cinema (
> 
> http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Bpc1fk5T5dYC&lpg=PA52&dq=The%20Corbett-Fitzsimmons%20Fight&pg=PA88#v=onepage&q=Rudolph%20Valentino&f=false
> )
>
> Best wishes
> Catherine Grant
>
> Media and Film, University of Sussex
> http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com
>
> On 4 September 2010 22:04, scott hutchins <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote:
>
>> 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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