Sarah Street
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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]
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]
