For Review

Our Reviews section features critical engagements with a wide range of media, including reviews of books, exhibitions, and events that contribute to the fields of Eastern European studies, Slavic studies, film, media, and visual studies, as well as related areas of cultural and political inquiry.

We publish reviews in all languages of the region covered in Apparatus, as well as English, German, and French. Our goal is to reflect the linguistic and cultural diversity of the regions and disciplines we cover.

We particularly welcome reviews of works published by smaller academic and independent presses, those engaging with post-colonial and liberation-focused scholarship, and which foreground the work of women, queer, and other historically marginalised authors, artists, and filmmakers.

Non-exhaustive Suggested Titles for Review
We welcome inquiries from prospective reviewers interested in recent and relevant publications. Examples are listed below. If you have a specific topic in mind that aligns with our scope, we encourage you to contact us with titles or ideas before submitting a complete review at  apparatusreviews@gmail.com.

de Corinth, Henri, Andrzej Żuławski: Abject Cinema

Dzyadevych, Tetyana (Ed.), Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics: Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia

Makarevic, Asja, ed. Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War: A Study of Non-Representation in Film

Ostrowska, Elżbieta, ReFocus: The Films of Agnieszka Holland

Лукіч, Антоніо, Мої думки про кіно. Як перекласти життя на сценарій

Shmidt, Victoria, and Karl Kaser, A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

Samardzija, Zoran, Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema