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Mumsnet Zombies: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse on Mumsnet and YouTube

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The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture

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This chapter explores the manner in which zombies can be examined as a device through which we may consider social anxieties. The chapter concludes by asserting that zombies have been used as a device through which we can understand and deal with contemporary social problems and other forms of ‘risk’. I argue they are a tool that is used to engage with risk and to ameliorate the psychological impact of the possibility of calamitous disasters.

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  1. University of Winchester, UK

    Marcus Leaning (Head of Department of the School of Media and Film)

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  1. University of Winchester, UK

    Laura Hubner (School of Media and Film Studies), Marcus Leaning (School of Media and Film Studies) & Paul Manning (School of Media and Film Studies) (School of Media and Film Studies),  (School of Media and Film Studies) &  (School of Media and Film Studies)

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Leaning, M. (2015). Mumsnet Zombies: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse on Mumsnet and YouTube. In: Hubner, L., Leaning, M., Manning, P. (eds) The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276506_10

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