NOTES
- As cited by V. Fuentes, ‘Pedro Almodóvar: la plenitud posmoderna’, Plural (1990), No. 229, 62–69.
- ‘1975-1985: los poderes del pasado’, in La cultura española en el posfranquismo (Madrid: Playa, 1988), 11–27.
- M. T. García de León and T. Maldonado, Pedro Almodóvar: la otra España cañí (Ciudad Real: Diputación Provincial, 1989), pp. 97 and 114.
- As cited by N. Vidal, El cine de Pedro Almodóvar (Barcelona: Destino, 1989), 170.
- The standard works on these topics are J. Frazer, The Golden Bough (London: Macmillan, 1922), R. Graves The Greek Myths, 2 vols. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960). A synopsis of its relevance to Lorca is provided by A. Anderson, Lorca's Late Poetry (Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1990), 159–65. The reference to Vidal is at p. 237.
- More information is provided by T. Chetwynd, A Dictionary of Symbols (London: Paladin, 1982). For magical rites see: F. King, Ritual Magic in England (London: Spearman, 1970); K. Seligman, Magic, Supernaturalism and Religion (London: Penguin, 1971) and T. Luhrmann, Persuasions of the Witch's Craft (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
- García de León and Maldonado, op. cit., 264.
- Fuentes, art. cit., 65–66.
- Cited by A. Cabanilles in her Introduction to La vella pell de l'alba (València: Eliseu Climent, 1985), 25.
- ‘Almodóvar's Matador: Genre, Subjectivity and Desire’. This article is forthcoming in BHS.
- Vidal, op. cit., 57.
- Evans, art. cit.
- Fuentes, art. cit., 67.
- A full and informative account of Decadentist treatment of these themes is provided by the following works of P. Jullian: The Symbolists (Oxford: Phaidon, 1973) and Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890s (London: Phaidon, 1974). The majority of paintings to which I refer are to be found in both these volumes.
- Vidal, op. cit., 67.
- Vidal, op. cit., 302.
- The opinion expressed by the director Jaime Chávarri as cited by García de León and Maldonado, op. cit., 215.
- Vidal, op. cit., 161.
- Evans, art. cit., ‘Almodóvar's Matador’, BHS (forthcoming).