An Index to SCAN Journal of Media Arts Culture

Frame grab from All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999) from an image-essay by Ryland Walker Knight) - see also Fiona Jenkins' wonderful SCAN essay, Grief’s Testimony: On Almodóvar’s All About My Mother

It's Open Access Week this week, and while every Film Studies For Free blogpost brings you links to openly accessible Film and Media Studies resources, FSFF thought it was a good moment to celebrate one of the most consistently excellent OA e-journals, the Australia-based SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture. Below, then, is a complete and convenient one-stop index of live links to all the refereed articles on film and media that SCAN has published in its five and a half years of online existence.

FSFF's highlights are: the Film as Philosophy and Screenscapes Past Present Future special issues; the fantastic Cinematic Scriptwriting issue, edited by Kathryn Millard; Elizabeth A. Wilson's brilliant reflections on artificial intelligence; Justine Toh on Batman Begins; Christopher Hayton on Charlton Comics' Monster Movie Adaptations; Darrin Verhagen on audiovision; and Ahu Paköz on Persepolis.

• Vol 6 Number 2 September 2009 on Sound.Music.Design

The Expanded-contracted Field of Recent Audio-Visual Art Ian Andrews

Developing the Practice and Theory of Stream-based Sonification Stephen Barrass

Captured Space Philip Samartzis

Audiovision, psy-ops and the perfect crime: Zombie Agents and sound design Darrin Verhagen

Body≈Sounds: an emergent sonic practice Danielle Wilde

• vol 6 number 1 June 2009 Reading Between the Panels (Part II)
  

Considering comics as medium, art, and culture - the case of From Hell Simon Locke

The tools and toys of (the) War (on Terror): Consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman Begins Justine Toh

Remasters of American Comics: Sequential art as new media in the transformative museum context Damian Duffy

Fantastic Giants: Charlton Comics' Monster Movie Adaptations Christopher Hayton

Reading Comics Rhetorically: Orality, Literacy, and Hybridity in Comic Narratives Bobby Kuechenmeister

• vol 5 number 3 December 2008 Biopolitics of the senses: touch, sound and embodied being

Possession without a touch: letters of Marina Tsvetaeva: Written in and translated from the Russian by Natalija Arlauskaite

"When the grinding starts": Negotiating touch in rehearsal Kate Rossmanith

Sound, touch, the felt body and emotion: Toward a haptic art of voice Yvon Bonenfant

Interactive instrumental performance and gesture sonification Kirsty Beilharz

Critical Dialogues 1 David Chapman and Louise K. Wilson, with Anne Cranny-Francis

Sonic Assault to Massive Attack: touch, sound and embodiment Anne Cranny-Francis

• vol 5 number 2 September 2008 Reading Between the Panels (Part I)

(Re)Constructing History: Italy's Post-War Resistence Movement in Contemporary Comics Laura Perna

Too Cruel: The Diseased Teens and Mean Bodies of Charles Burns's Black Hole James Zeigler

"His greatest enemy – intolerance!" The Superman radio show in 1946 Michael Goodrum

Out of Africa: The Saga of Exiled Cartoonists in Europe John A. Lent

A Reawakening of Memories in Comic Form: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Ahu Paköz

The Cultural Biographies and Social Lives of Manga: Lessons from the Mangaverse Mio Bryce, Jason Davis and Christie Barber

If Walls Could Talk: Spatialising Narrative in the Museum Peter Doyle

• vol 5 number 1 May 2008 Screenscapes Past Present Future

For a History of Black Sean Cubitt

YouTube: the New Cinema of Attractions Teresa Rizzo

S.M.L.XL: Feature film across the Screenscape Alex Munt

Voice, Image, Television: Beckett’s Divided Screens Julian Murphet

James Ellroy's Cinematic Crime Writing: From 'Stephanie' to My Dark Places Rodney Taveira

Surveillance Screens and Screening in Code 46 Peter Marks

From Big to Little Screens: Recurring Images of Democratic Credibility and the Net Mark Rolfe

• vol 4 number 3 December 2007 Mobile Media/Public Spaces

Uncertain Spaces: Artists’ Exploration of New Socialities in Mediated Public Space Maria Miranda

Dead to the World: The future of hand-held art Darren Tofts

iApparatus or How the Culture of Personalised Media Creates Millions of iOperators Andreas Ströhl

• vol 4 number 2 august 2007 Film as Philosophy

A phenomenology of tragedy: illness and body betrayal in The Fly Havi Carel

Grief’s Testimony: On Almodóvar’s All About My Mother Fiona Jenkins

A Play of Memory: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil Catherine Summerhayes

Grace and Violence: Questioning Politics and Desire in Lars von Trier’s Dogville Robert Sinnerbrink

Even Better than the Real Thing: Sadism and Real(ity) T.V. Matthew Sharpe

Thinking cinema(tically) and the Industrial Temporal Object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series Patrick Crogan

The cinematic condition of the politico-philosophical future Daniel Ross

• vol 4 number 1 April 2007 e-Performance: Post-disciplinary contexts and theorisation

soundAFFECTs: transcoding, writing, new media, affect Hazel Smith

Performing the Network Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark

Sonic Immersion: Interactive Engagement in Real-Time Immersive Environments Garth Paine

Performing Posthuman Perspective: Can You See Me Now? Rosemary Klich

e-Collaborations in Sixties America: 9 Evenings, the Dancer’s Body, and Electronic Technologies Meredith Morse

• vol 3 number 3 December 2006 Technological Interventions
  

Somatechnics, or Monstrosity Unbound Nikki Sullivan

Somatic Technologies: Embodiment, New Technologies and the Undead Anne Cranny-Francis

Cyber Disobedience: Gandhian Cyberpunks Cynthia Townley & Mitch Parsell

Deus est Machina: Technology, Religion and Derrida’s Autoimmunity Nick Mansfield

(De)constructing Technologies of Subjectivity Nicole Anderson

Border Trouble: photography, strategies, and transsexual identities Sara Davidmann

Grow Your Own - Angiogenetic Body Adornment Norman Cherry

The theatrical text as a misrecognised technological practice: Shape-shifting interventions between words and bodies Mark Seton

• vol 3 number 2 October 2006 Cinematic Scriptwriting (edited by Kathryn Millard)

Kind of a Revolution, and Kind of Not: Digital Low-Budget Cinema in Australia Today Adrian Martin

Writing for the Screen: Beyond the Gospel of Story Kathryn Millard

Re-telling History in the Digital Age: The Scripting Of Hunt Angels Alec Morgan

Digital Kiarostami & The Open Screenplay Alex Munt

Writing the 'Real'/ Really Writing Maree Delofski

Writing on the screen John Grech

• vol 3 number 1 June 2006 News and the Net: Convergences and Divergences
  

Wikinews: The Next Generation of Alternative Online News? Axel Bruns

Disaggregating Online News: The Canadian Federal Election, 2005-2006 Greg Elmer, Zach Devereaux & David Skinner

Democracy & Online News: Indymedia and the Limits of Participatory Media Lee Salter

News on the Net: A critical analysis of the potential of online alternative journalism to challenge the dominance of mainstream news media Trish Bolton

The Daily Show, Crossfire, and the Will to Truth Megan Boler

• vol 2 number 3 December 2005 Shadows of the Dead: Mediating the Archive Photograph
  

The Utilitarian Photographer Lindsay Barrett

Doomed streets of Sydney 1900-1928: Images from the City Council's Demolition Books Sue Doyle

Haunted by a Vitality that is No More - Interpreting the Photograph in the Crime Archive Caleb Williams

Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930 Peter Doyle

• vol 2 number 2 September 2005 Memory, Media, and Embodied Cognition
  

"Can you think what I feel? Can you feel what I think?": Notes on affect, embodiment and intersubjectivity in AI Elizabeth A. Wilson

"The Chain of Memory": Distributed Cognition in Early Modern England Evelyn Tribble

Tangkic Orders of Time: an anthropological approach to time study Paul Memmott

Body Memory in Muscular Action on Trapeze Peta Tait

The Dynamic Body Image and the Moving Body: revisiting Schilder's theory for psychological research Francine Hanley

The Mutation of "Cognition" and the Fracturing of Modernity: cognitive technics, extended mind and cultural crisis Andrew Murphie

Indexing Audio-Visual Digital Media: the PathScape prototype Mike Leggett

Seeking self-consistency with integrity: an interdisciplinary approach to the ethics of self and memory Russell Downham

On the Likely Form of 'Autobiographical Memory' for Aristotle James William Ley

• vol 2 number 1 April 2005 "The Glittering Tart": Imaging Sydney
  

The Enigma of Arrival James Donald

SYD: the city as airport Gillian Fuller & Ross Rudesch Harley

Morphings and Ur-Forms: From Flâneur to Driveur Sherman Young

Drawing Sydney: Flatlands and the Chromatic Contours of a Global City Stephanie Hemelryk Donald & John Gammack

"I’d rather take Methadone than Ken Done": Branding Sydney in the 1980s Susie Khamis

Blue Murder: a RE-IMAGINED history Greg Levine & Stephen McElhinney

• vol 1 number 3 November 2004 BODILY (Trans)Formations

Body Politics in Post-Soviet Russia Dmitry Mikhel

'It's as plain as the nose on his face': Michael Jackson, modificatory practices, and the question of ethics Nikki Sullivan

Fleshly Impressions: The Work of Paddy Hartley Paddy Hartley

The Monster Body of Myra Hindley Cathy Hawkins

Producing Identity: Elective Amputation and Disability Harminder Dosanjh Kaur

Queering Performativity: Disability After Deleuze Margrit Shildrick

Better dicks through drugs? The penis as a pharmaceutical target Petra Boynton

Digital memories, analogues of affect Robert Payne

“Pagan Poetry”, Piercing, Pain and the Politics of Becoming Greg Hainge

The Christological Imperative: notes towards a speculative re-interpretation of Catholic martyrdom Daniel Nourry

• vol 1 number 2 June 2004 Ghost & Their Machines: Magic, Technology and the Uncanny
  

Contingency on the Island of Ghosts Stephen Muecke

Machine Love and the Uncanny Object: A Children's Story Annette Hamilton

The Ghost In/On The Machine: Magic, Technology And The "Modest Witness" Anne Cranny-Francis

Dream Cities: The Uncanny Powers of Electric Light Scott McQuire

Seeing Impossible Bodies: Fascination as a Spatial Experience Patricia Pringle

Technology and Magick Steve Collins

• vol 1 number 1 January 2004 Ludic Moments

Co-Creative Media: Online Multiplayer Computer Game Culture Sue Morris

The Experience of Information in Computer Games
Patrick Crogan

Playing in the Zone: Thirdspace in Jet Set Radio Future and Shenmue II Brett Nicholls & Simon Ryan

Games, Simulation & Serious Fun: An Interview With Espen Aarseth Patrick Crogan

Neither gaze nor glance, but glaze: relating to console game screens Chris Chesher