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... and the protagonist’s desire will revolve, compulsively, like so many satellites. And yet, when Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wakes, startled, on Earth to his wife Lori (Sharon Stone)-the first in a series of reversals that structures the narrative of Total Recall-Mars, he realizes, is merely...

... Doug Quaid (Schwarzenegger again) is betrayed, an act of duplicity that leads straightaway to the death of the leader of the Martian resistance, it is by a mutant cab driver who had been trusted implicitly by members of the resistance because he had a false left hand (which, when screwed...

... frame of performativity. For instance, Sharon Willis describes the sequence in Far from Heaven in which Cathy is interviewed for a lifestyle mag- 50  •  Camera Obscura Figure 6. Cathy (Julianne Moore) and Frank Whitaker (Dennis Quaid) in Far from Heaven (dir. Todd Haynes, US, 2002...

... the text’s link to films past, it is already fully enacted and inscribed in Far from Heaven itself. The film’s narrative traces the dissolution of the marriage of characters Cathy and Frank Whit- aker (played by Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid) as they attempt to escape the confines of their 1950s white...

... on Kyle’s fears about his own potency and his blindness to his wife’s loyalty, Far from Heaven presents a drama of marital impasse between Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore), in her wishful heterosexual blindness, and her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid), who struggles with the escalating unmanageability...