Title Page -- Introduction -- VAMPIRE PORN -- SOOKEH! BEE-ILL! AND THE DOWNFALL OF WILLIAM T. COMPTON - How Vampire Bill ... -- Let's start with looks, shall we? -- A little humanity is irony. This is . . . something else. -- It's raining sexy supes, Bill, but you're too busy playing Wii to put up a damn umbrella. -- Alone, he's merely annoying. Together, they're intolerable. -- Can this vampire be saved? Maybe if he grows a pair . . . of fangs, that is. -- HOME IS WHERE THE BAR IS -- Location, Location, Location -- A Vampire Walks Into a Roadhouse . . . -- For Everything, There Is a Season -- TO LIVE AND LIVE IN DIXIE - Magical Creatures and Traditional Southern Culture -- The Middle of Nowhere -- Separate but Superior -- What Makes a Man? -- Belles of Bon Temps -- So, Whose South Is It? -- WORKING CLASS HEROES - The Blue-Collar Politics of True Blood -- THE EGO, THE ID, AND SOOKIE STACKHOUSE - True Blood's Freudian Analysis of Intimacy -- COMMUNION OF BLOOD - A New Gospel? -- PURE BLOOD - From Transylvania to Bon Temps -- TRUE STUD - Jason Stackhouse in Search of Masculinity -- A KINDER, GENTLER VAMPIRE -- That Unique Personal Touch -- Non-Aggressive, to a Human Degree -- Flexible in Social Mindset -- Dutiful Son, Ethnic Traditionalist, Supports the Status Quo -- Law-Abiding Dual Citizen -- You Are What You Eat -- WHAT A STRANGE LOVE - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Shifters -- A FEW BLOWN FUSES BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER - Alan Ball and the Circuit of Abandon -- BLUE-COLLAR BACCHANALIA -- Maryann as Maenad -- Maryann as Bohemian Intellectual -- Small-Town Values -- The Flimsy Veil -- NIGHT IS THE COLOR OF BLOOD - The Color Aesthetics of True Blood -- The Many-Colored Silver Screen: Color Design in Cinema -- Alan Ball, A Colorful Storyteller -- Red (Blood, Lust, and Excess) and White (Innocence, Purity, and Light).

White and Red Make Pink (Romance, Innocence, Love, Femininity, Sexuality, Emasculation) -- Green (Nature, Balance, Decay, Poison, and the Outsider) -- Gold and Yellow: The Sunshine Colors -- Turquoise (Transformation, Healing, and Mysticism) and Purple (Death, Magic, ... -- FANGS AND FAME - The Vampire as Celebrity -- I LOVE YOU, I JUST DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOU (SO MUCH) -- ADAPT-OR DIE ! -- FROM CASTLE DRACULA TO MERLOTTE'S BAR & GRILL - Some Notes on the Evolution of ... -- I. Preamble -- II. A Cursory Survey of the Existing Literature -- III. My Co-Author, As Usual, Is Completely Missing the Point -- IV. As I Was Saying Before I Was So Rudely Interrupted -- V. The Passion of the Vampire -- VI. Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do? -- VII. Conclusions and Preliminary Findings -- TRUE BLOOD EPISODE GUIDE -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright Page.