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.

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.

In 2012, she received a grant from the Leverhulme Trust to research color cinema in the 1920s. 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. She has received other AHRC research grants for British color film.

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

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. In 2019, Street received The Colour Group (Great Britain) Turner Medal, which honors artists or art historians. 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).

Publications

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.