WORKSHOP 5: THE VAMPIRE'S FAVOURITE COUSINS: WEREWOLVES AND OTHER ANIMALS OR MONSTERS

This workshop will focus on creatures that are related to the vampire, or are its natural enemies.

 

Possible topics for this panel include, but are not limited to:

 

  • Werewolves and their various representations in film - American Werewolf in Paris, The Wolfman, Teen Wolf, The Howling, 
  • Werewolves in horror 
  • Werewolves with other monsters - Underworld, Anita Blake Vampire Hunter, True Blood, Twilight, Hemlock Grove, 
  • Werewolves in legend and 
  • Werecousins - weretigers, werelions, and werebears, oh my! (Examination of alternative forms of 
  • Animal imagery in
  • Zombies and other misunderstood monsters
  • Zombies in films - George Romero/Zach Snyder, 28 Days Later, Warm Bodies, White Zombie, 
  • Zombies in television shows - The Walking Dead/Fear the Walking Dead, iZombie, 
  • Zombies in satire - Shaun of the Dead, Dead Snow, etc.
  • Zombies in Modern Literature - Darren Shan, Max Brooks, Robert Kirkman, 
  • Zombies in graphic 
  • Violence in Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales and Gothic 
  • Ghosts in 
  • Ghosts in film and television - The Woman in Black, Being Human, 
  • Representations of Ghosts and their impact on modern 
  • Evolution of the ghost 
  • Monster myths from non-european cultures: Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Native American, Pacific Islanders, etc. 
  • Frankenstein’s Monster and it’s various interpretation