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.