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).