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

References

  1. ^ "Professor Sarah Street". University of Bristol. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  2. ^ Dark Art of Light (21 January 2015). "Sarah Street – Colour Film Historian, University of Bristol". YouTube. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  3. ^ Street, Sarah (2009). British National Cinema. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-38421-6.
  4. ^ "British National Cinema". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Grant listings: 2012: Humanities". Leverhulme Trust. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  6. ^ "£246,000 for research into colour in the 1920s". University of Bristol. 11 April 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Professor Sarah Street awarded AHRC grant". University of Bristol. 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  8. ^ "The Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema, 1955–85 (AH/N009444/1)". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  9. ^ "The Negotiation of Innovation: Colour Films in Britain, 1900–55 (Research Grant AH/E00623X/1)". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Journal of British Cinema and Television". Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  11. ^ "Sarah Street". Iris Prize. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  12. ^ "First Prize for Best Monograph, awarded by BAFTSS, 2014". University of Bristol. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  13. ^ "Professor Sarah Street: 'The Art of Film Colour'. Colour Group (GB) Turner Medal Lecture". Colour and Film. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  14. ^ Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s. Columbia University Press. April 2019. ISBN 9780231542289. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  15. ^ "Chromatic Modernity Wins the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award!". Columbia University Press Blog. 4 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  16. ^ "Yumibe Receives Prestigious Book Award". Research @ MSU. 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  17. ^ "2020 SCMS Awards". Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Retrieved 18 November 2020.