Confronting the Zombie-pocalypse: Deconstructing Conflict in The Walking Dead

The myriad high-quality television dramas that keep us glued to our seats week after week offer extensive opportunities for analysis in the classroom, argues Louise Lavery. Here, she explains how her Year 12 English class employed a critically acclaimed horror series about zombies to explore the role of conflict in a variety of fictional and real-life media texts.

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