Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe (ISSN 2365-7758) 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.
Contents
Scope
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.
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
In its biannual frequency the journal publishes one open-call issue and one special issue. 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.