Sarah Street (born 1958) is professor of Film and Foundation Chair of Drama at University of Bristol.
Street received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Warwick and a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University. [1] [2]
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]
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]