How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse: What the Walking Dead Can Teach Us About Professional Survival

Why Study Zombie Stories?

According to Platt, “cultural productions reveal something about the societies that created them.”¹ Consistent with this principle, “zombie films, comic books, novels, [and] video games…can be seen as significant cultural objects that reflect and reveal the cultural and material circumstances of their creation.” Platt considers zombies to be “bureaucratically managed representations of cultural anxiety.” According to Peter Dendle, PhD, “the zombie can be read as tracking a wide range of cultural, political, and economic anxieties of American society.”⁴ Platt argues that “to ignore these mass-mediated cultural representations of fear and terror is to ignore one of the largest and most enduring cultural sites in which thought and discussion of and about fear and terror occurs.”¹