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At 60, Patricia embarks on a transformative journey after entering a relationship with a charismatic businessman, leaving her academic career behind. This new chapter challenges her to harmonize with another person, prompting her to delve into Buddhist teachings on emotions and reactions. The narrative intertwines her personal growth with insights from renowned Buddhist scholars, highlighting virtues like tolerance and compassion. Through her travels across Asia, Patricia uncovers the profound lessons of love and emotional resilience, ultimately revealing the beauty found in life's challenges.

"This intellectually sexy collection features some of the best and brightest academic media analysts from Britain and the United States." ―Voice Literary Supplement"The essays in this volume rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory, the central contemporary debate in the humanities." ―Communication Abstracts"Mellencamp has produced a challenging and an invigorating text. . . . It should provide much inspiration." ―Journal of Communication"This is a particularly good collection of thirteen papers with, overall, much more theoretically interesting yet less obscure and more pleasure-giving content than the norm. Give it priority." ―Media Information AustraliaThese essays, on the cutting edge of theoretical debate in the humanities, rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural critique and theory. They range widely from detailed historical research to broad questions of theory and method.Contributors are Patricia Mellencamp, Meaghan Morris, John Caughie, Charlotte Brunsdon, Lynn Spigel, William Boddy, Eileen R. Meehan, Andrew Ross, Lynne Joyrich, Jane Gaines, Margaret Morse, Mary Ann Doane, and Stephen Heath.