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 >> >> ---- >> For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: >> http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html >> > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF > Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org