Apparatus (journal)
Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe is a bi-annual open-access academic journal with double blind peer-review. Apparatus is supported by the DFG, hosted by Freie Universität Berlin and edited by Dr Natascha Drubek. The first issue was published in September 2015. Apparatus publishes in the native languages of the region as well as in English. The editorial board includes scholars from the US, Europe and Russia.
Scope
Apparatus covers a full range of digital and analogue media in the countries of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe including Russia. The journal publishes both current and historical research, theoretical and empirical studies alike.Language Policy
Apparatus publishes articles in English as well as in other languages of the region. All of the abstracts are available in three languages – English, German, and Russian. Up until now Apparatus has published articles in English, German, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Russian.Special Issues
Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen I. No. 17 and Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen II. No. 18. Edited by Heleen Gerritsen.. No. 15 and The Haunted Medium II: Moving Images in the Russian Empire. No. 16. Edited by Rachel Morley, Natascha Drubek, Oksana Chefranova, and Denise J. Youngblood.
Soviet Playtime: Architectures of Power and Profligacy in DAU. No. 14. Edited by Philip Cavendish, Natascha Drubek, and Irina Schulzki – with texts by Ivan Kozlenko, Keti Chukhrov.
. No. 13. Edited by Clemens Günther and Christiane Schäfer
Pandemic Cinema in Central and Eastern Europe. No. 12. Edited by Raoul Eshelman, Mario Slugan, and Denise J. Youngblood
Yugoslav Performance Art: On the Deferred Production of Knowledge. No. 11. Edited by Goran Pavlić
Fiction in Central and Eastern European Film Theory and Practice. No. 8. Edited by J. Alexander Bareis and Mario Slugan
. No. 7. Edited by Ana Grgic and Adelheid Heftberger, with the first instance of Artistic Research, by Szilvia Ruszev.
. No. 6. Edited by Adelheid Heftberger and Karen Pearlman
Mise en geste. Studies of Gesture in Cinema and Art. No. 5. Edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina and Irina Schulzki
Ghetto Films and their Afterlife No. 2-3. Edited by Natascha Drubek. The first special issue has grown out of an international conference devoted to the analysis of Nazi filmmaking in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp during the Second World War.
Open Apparatus Book
In 2020 the first Open Apparatus Book appeared:. Edited by Sandra Frimmel, Tomáš Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Katalin Krasznahorkai, Nastasia Louveau, Dorota Sajewska, Sylvia Sasse.