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Notes
1. The actual number of viewers of Lucía y el sexo was 1,317,054, according to the online film database of the Spanish Government's Ministerio de Cultura available at its website, <http://www.mcu.es>.
2. Eve Sedgwick's full quote is as follows: “Sex, gender, sexuality: three terms whose usage relations and analytical relations are almost irremediably slippery” (Epistemology of the Closet, 27).
3. Williams's analysis of melodrama as an excessive “body genre” referred to here is developed in her article “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”.
4. Medem's full quote in the introduction to the screenplay goes as follows: “Al descubrir de qué manera se necesitan mis dos únicos protagonistas de esta historia, su relación sexual se convirtió, como inevitable continuación, en una fiesta privada, un despegue hacia la felicidad. Es así como cobró todo su sentido la idea misma de el sexo, desde su lado más encantado, tirando a naif” (13).
5. Fernández Santos's actual statement reads as follows: “Hablo de la decisión que lleva a Paz Vega a huir de su casa y, en una disparatada decisión, dar por muerto a su amante.”