1. ANDREW-D. DEVOS
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ANDREW-D. DEVOS is an academic who published a paper in 2015 entitled Mixed Messages: An Interdisciplinary Narrative of Interracial Sexuality in US Films, 1956-2001. ANDREW-D. DEVOS published this work as part of a team: DeVos, Andrew D.. Here is a description of this work: Since 1903, the movie industry has produced nearly one thousand films offering cinematic contributions to the contentious discourse about the evolving meaning of race in US society. Despite the pervasiveness of such images, neither academia nor the general public fully recognize the integral place of interracial sexuality in US cinema, past or present. These filmic images have both incited discussion and contributed to the discourse about the ever-evolving meaning of race in US society?sometimes reflecting, frequently shaping, but always fully participating in this contentious national discussion. The representation of interracial sexuality in film charts the history of how various interlocutors discuss, disagree, and argue over the meaning(s) of race in any given era. This dissertation provides a narrative account of interr.
