Professor Sarah Street

Research summary

My main areas of research activity are British cinema history and the contemporary film industry; the politics and economics of the film industry; British film genres; aspects of costume and cinema, including work on Hitchcock, mise-en-scène, set design and colour film. My book publications include Cinema and State: The Film Industry and the British Government (co-authored with Margaret Dickinson, British Film Institute, 1985); British National Cinema (Routledge, 1997; 2^nd edition 2009); Costume and Cinema (Wallflower, 2001); British Cinema in Documents (Routledge, 2000); European Cinema (Palgrave/Macmillan, co-edited with Jill Forbes, 2000); Moving Performance: British Stage and Screen (Flicks Books ...

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Recent publications

• Street, S & Steinvall, A, 2020, ‘The Cultural History of Color: The Modern Age’. Bloomsbury Academic
• Street, S, Johnston, KM, Rickards, C & Frith, P, 2019, ‘From the Margins to the Mainstream? The Eastmancolor Revolution and Challenging the Realist Canon in British Cinema’. Cinema&Cie, vol XIX., pp. 27-38

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