Discord Consensus

24 Patricia Pisters, Lessen van Hitchcock: een inleiding in mediatheorie, 2nd edn.
(Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004), 215.
25 Quoted by Bart Hofstede, Dutch Film Abroad: The International Position of Dutch Film
(Amsterdam: Boekmanstudies, 2000), 9.
26 Pisters, Lessen van Hitchcock, 218. Pisters says that the growing tendency to reflect multicultural
society in literature and television has yet to reach the world of feature films.
27 De groene Amsterdammer 124/​43 (2000), 40–​3, quoted by Pisters, Lessen van Hitchcock, 218.
28 Buscombe (1981), quoted by Elsaesser, European Cinema, 66.
29 Uecker, ‘National Identity for International Audiences?’, 139. Uecker relates these features
to the concept of ‘cinema of consensus’ put forward by Eric Rentschler.
30 Wilfried Wims, ‘Dresden: The Return of History as Soap’, in Fisher and Prager (eds.), The
Collapse of the Conventional, 136–​56 (136).
31 Elsaesser, European Cinema, 72–​3.
32 Elsaesser, European Cinema, 72–​3.
33 Hugo Brems situates The Twins within decidedly international trends for realism and historical
writing which converged between 1985 and 1995 and contributed to a ‘sustained
and even expanding’ trend towards producing novels about the Second World War. Brems,
Altijd weer vogels, die nesten beginnen: Geschiednis van de Nederlandse literatuur 1945–​2005
(Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2006), 557.
34 Bakker, ‘Recensie van Noordervliet’, Haagsche Courant, 3 December 1993, quoted by
Vanderwal Taylor, ‘Nature, Nurture, and Narcissism in Two Recent Dutch “European”
Novels’, 245.
35 The Twins, pp. 353–​4.
36 Scenes were made of Anna nursing a dying soldier who is fixated on the promise of final
victory but these were removed in the final cut.
Chapter 9
1 Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (London: Pimlico, 2007), 361.
2 See, for example, Dieter Gosewinkel, ‘Zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie. Wirtschaftliches
Planungsdenken in Deutschland und Frankreich: Vom Ersten Weltkrieg bis zur Mitte der
1970er Jahre’, Geschichte und Gesellschaft 34 (2008), 327–​59; Ellen M. Immergut, Health
Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1992).
3 Michael Keating, ‘A Regional History of Modern Europe: Territorial Management and the
State’, in Bill Lancaster, Diana Newton and Natasha Vall (eds.), An Agenda for Regional
History (Newcastle: Northumbria University Press, 2007), 149–​64 (153).
4 Earlier work on the history of regional policies leaves space for detailed comparisons of
regions and countries: see, for example, Ray Hudson, Wrecking a Region: State Policies, Party
Politics and Regional Change in North East England (London: Pion, 1989); Douglas Yuill (ed.),
Regional Policy in the Regions: An International Comparison (The Hague: Dutch Ministry
of Economic Affairs, 2003); Michael Ryckewaert, Building the Backbone of the European
Welfare State: Infrastructure, Planning and Architecture (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2011).
5 P. Th. F. M. Boekholt, ‘Die Beziehungen zwischen den nordöstlichen Niederlanden und
Nordwestdeutschland’, in O. S. Knottnerus et al. (eds.), Rund um Ems und Dollart. Historische
Erkundungen im Grenzgebiet der Nordostniederlande und Nordwestdeutschlands (Groningen
and Leer: REGIO-​Projekt and Schuster, 1992), 244–​55.
6 Mariëtte Glim and Theo Toonen, ‘Dutch Provinces in a Policy Perspective’, in J. J. Hesse
(ed.), Regionen in Europa (Baden-​Baden: Nomos, 1996), 81–​109.
7 R. Danielzyk, R. Krüger and B. Schäfer, Ostfriesland: Leben in einer “besonderen Welt”.
Einen Untersuchung zum Verhältnis von Alltag, Kultur und Politik im regionalen Maßstab
(Oldenburg: Universität Oldenburg, 1995), 4.
8 Gerd Steinwascher, ‘Politische Geschichte im 19. und in der ersten Hälfte des
20. Jahrhunderts’, in Werner Franke et al. (eds.), Der Landkreis Emsland. Geographie,
Geschichte, Gegenwart. Eine Kreisbeschreibung (Meppen: Landkreis Emsland, 2002),
333–​79 (361).
9 Heiner Schüpp, ‘Gebiets-​und Verwaltungsreform’, in Franke et al. (eds.), Der Landkreis
Emsland, 528–​52 (549).
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