King, Ben

Contributions

• It's a Scream
  Articles
  Why do so many horror films feature the young, pretty and prosperous at the business end of a carving knife? A few examples include Scream 2 (1998), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Scream (1997), and The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1992). In fact, the...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 1 No. 5 (1998): Play
• Retelling Psycho
  Articles
  As the old technologies become automatic and invisible, we find ourselves more concerned with fighting or embracing what’s new”—Dennis Baron, From Pencils to Pixels:The Stage of Literacy Technologies Increasingly, cultural study is villainised by defenders of...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 2 No. 1 (1999): Fiction
• Invasion
  Editorial
  The pop cultural moment that most typifies the social psychology of invasion for many of us is Orson Welles's 1938 coast to coast CBS radio broadcast of Invaders from Mars, a narration based on H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. News bulletins and scene broadcasts followed Welles's introduction, featuring, in contemporary journalistic style, reports of a...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 2 No. 2 (1999): Invasion