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 (German Research Foundation), 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.
Apparatus covers a full range of digital and analogue media in the countries of Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe including Russia (early technical media, film, radio, television, video, internet, DVD, etc.). The journal publishes both current and historical research, theoretical and empirical studies alike.
Apparatus publishes articles in English as well as in other languages of the region. All of the abstracts are available in three languages â English, German, and Russian. Up until now Apparatus has published articles in English, German, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Russian.
. No. 17 (2023) and . No. 18 (2024). Edited by Heleen Gerritsen.
The Haunted Medium I: Moving Images in the Russian Empire. No. 15 (2022) and . No. 16 (2023). Edited by Rachel Morley, Natascha Drubek, Oksana Chefranova, and Denise J. Youngblood.
. No. 14 (2022). Edited by Philip Cavendish, Natascha Drubek, and Irina Schulzki â with texts by Ivan Kozlenko, Keti Chukhrov.
Putting the Empire to Music. The Phenomenon of Vocal-Instrumental Ensembles (VIA). No. 13 (2021). Edited by Clemens Günther and Christiane Schäfer
. No. 12 (2021). Edited by Raoul Eshelman, Mario Slugan, and Denise J. Youngblood
. No. 11 (2020). Edited by Goran PavliÃÂ
. No. 8 (2019). Edited by J. Alexander Bareis and Mario Slugan
Women Cutting Movies: Editors from East and Central Europe. No. 7 (2018). Edited by Ana Grgic and Adelheid Heftberger, with the first instance of Artistic Research article, by Szilvia Ruszev.
Women at the Editing Table: Revising Soviet Film History of the 1920s and 1930s. No. 6 (2018). Edited by Adelheid Heftberger and Karen Pearlman
. No. 5 (2017). Edited by Ana Hedberg Olenina and Irina Schulzki
(2016). 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.
In 2020 the first Open Apparatus Book appeared: Doing Performance Art History. Perspectives of Actors and Observers (2020). Edited by Sandra Frimmel, TomÃ¡à ¡ Glanc, Sabine Hänsgen, Katalin Krasznahorkai, Nastasia Louveau, Dorota Sajewska, Sylvia Sasse.
In 2021, The Book Lab was started with a Prepub by Natascha Drubek, Hidden Figures. Rewriting the History of Cinema in the Empire of All the Russias, accompanied by an Open Peer Review by Denise J. Youngblood.
The journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org/toc/2365-7758) and Scopus (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101038535).