Sarah Street

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

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Professor Sarah Street". University of Bristol. Retrieved 18 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ Dark Art of Light (21 January 2015). "Sarah Street – Colour Film Historian, University of Bristol". YouTube. Retrieved 19 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ "£246,000 for research into colour in the 1920s". University of Bristol. 11 April 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ "Professor Sarah Street awarded AHRC grant". University of Bristol. 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ↑ "The Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema, 1955–85 (AH/N009444/1)". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ "The Negotiation of Innovation: Colour Films in Britain, 1900–55 (Research Grant AH/E00623X/1)". UK Research and Innovation. Retrieved 18 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ "Journal of British Cinema and Television". Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved 18 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ↑ "Chromatic Modernity Wins the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award!". Columbia University Press Blog. 4 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ↑ "Yumibe Receives Prestigious Book Award". Research @ MSU. 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ↑ "2020 SCMS Awards". Society for Cinema and Media Studies . Retrieved 18 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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