Comments on: You Ever Hear of a Girl Detective?: Negotiating Gender and Authority in Candy Matson http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/05/23/you-ever-hear-of-a-girl-detective-negotiating-gender-and-authority-in-candy-matson/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Catherine Martin http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/05/23/you-ever-hear-of-a-girl-detective-negotiating-gender-and-authority-in-candy-matson/comment-page-1/#comment-441795 Tue, 26 May 2015 07:55:17 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=26574#comment-441795 Hi Roberta,

“Gunsel” actually did manage to sneak in every now and then. In this case, I was just using the term as shorthand for “a criminal/criminal lackey with a gun,” but it also pops up in series like “The Adventures of Sam Spade” – I’m guessing to play up the hardboiled atmosphere. I was just reading over the script for “Sam and the Corporation Murders” (one of the early ABC episodes) yesterday and Sam calls a pair of murderers “a couple of cheap gunsels.”

Thanks for reading!

Catherine

]]> By: Roberta X http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/05/23/you-ever-hear-of-a-girl-detective-negotiating-gender-and-authority-in-candy-matson/comment-page-1/#comment-441790 Sun, 24 May 2015 23:29:05 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=26574#comment-441790 “Gunsel” does not mean what you might think. And while SF might’ve had a few around, they’d be unlikely to show up in a radio drama produced in the early postwar years. (Hammett is using it in the correct sense when he has Sam Spade referring to Wilmer as a gunsel in “The Maltese Falcon,” but it is commonly misunderstood.)

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