Sarah Street

Sarah Street (born 1958) is professor of Film and Foundation Chair of Drama at University of Bristol.

Education

Street received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Warwick and a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University.^[1][2]

Research

Street researches 20th-century British film, with a special focus on color film, costume design, and set design. In 1997, she wrote British National Cinema, the first substantial overview of this subject; it is now in its second edition.^[3][4]

In 2012, she received a grant from the Leverhulme Trust to research color cinema in the 1920s.^[5][6] From 2016 to 2019, Street was the principal investigator of a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to research Eastmancolor, a type of color film produced by Kodak that was introduced to Britain in the 1950s.^[7][8] She has received other AHRC research grants for British color film.^[9]

She serves as an editor of the journal Screen and on the editorial board of Journal of British Cinema and Television.^[10] She is also a jury member for Best British Film of the Iris Prize, a queer film festival.^[11]

Honors and awards

Her book Colour Films in Britain received the 2014 First Prize for Best Monograph from The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.^[12] In 2019, Street received The Colour Group (Great Britain) Turner Medal, which honors artists or art historians.^[13] In 2020, she and Joshua Yumibe received the 2020 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for their book Chromatic Modernity (2019).^{[14][15][16][17]}

Publications

• Dickinson, Margaret and Sarah Street. Cinema and State: Film Industry and the British Government, 1927–84. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic, 1985.
• Street, Sarah. British National Cinema. United Kingdom: Routledge, 1997. Republished in 2008. ISBN 9780415067355
• Street, Sarah. British Cinema in Documents. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2000. Republished in 2016. ISBN 9780415168014, 0415168015
• Street, Sarah. Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film. United Kingdom: Wallflower, 2001. ISBN 9781903364185, 1903364183
• Street, Sarah. Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic, 2002. ISBN 9780826413963, 082641396X
• Street, Sarah. Black Narcissus: Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide. United Kingdom: I. B. Tauris, 2005. ISBN 1845110463
• Harris, Sue, Sarah Street and Tim Bergfelder. Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema (Film Culture in Transition). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. ISBN 9789053569801, 9053569804
• Street, Sarah and Jackie Stacey, editors. Queer Screen: A Screen Reader. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2005. ISBN 9780415384315
• Street, Sarah. Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900–1955. United Kingdom: British Film Institute, 2012. ISBN 1844573125
  • 2nd edition: Street, Sarah. Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900–1955. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. ISBN 9781838715151, 1838715150

• Street, Sarah and Jill Forbes. European Cinema: An Introduction. United Kingdom: Macmillan Education, Limited, 2017. ISBN 9781137080349, 1137080345
• Giovanna Fossati et al. The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema. Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. ISBN 9789462983014
• Street, Sarah. Deborah Kerr. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. ISBN 9781838715236, 1838715231
• Yumibe, Joshua and Sarah Street. Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s. United States: Columbia University Press, 2019. ISBN 9780231542289, 0231542283