Susan Street
Biographic Data
| ID | 762891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Street |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Street |
| SIGNATURE | STREET S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Screen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9881-1156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
This Studio is Dangerous! Hazards of Working in British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s
This article examines the high number of fires in British film studios which occurred in the 1930s and 1940s. The reasons for studios’ vulnerability to fires, and other workplace accidents, are examined, based on the many reports published in the trade, national and regional press of the serious damage caused to buildings and personnel. The article traces a culture in which health and safety matters were for a long time considered to be largely t…
All the inside “dope”’: Studio relay and textual analysis
Picturegoer who responded in 1947 to sociologist J. P. Meyer's appeal to send him recollections of their interest in cinema.They evidence a fascination with the way that films were made, a trend discovered by Meyer in children's cinemas of the Soviet Union, where additional rooms held information on cinematography, sketches of set designs, models of architectural structures for films, cameras and other apparatus. 1I am keenly interested in the te…
Requisitioning film studios in wartime Britain
This article evaluates the significance of requisitioning film studios in Britain during the Second World War. In uncovering this history, it offers new perspectives on the nature and process of requisitioning the studios as well as their equally important experience of being de-requisitioned after the war. As important contributors to the wartime economy and culture, any account of studios during the war and immediate post-war years is therefore…
European Cinema: An Introduction
‘The publication of European Cinema: An Introduction comes as a shower of rain in the desert...The editors Jill Forbes and Sarah Street and their contributors have written a text that helps to fill a yawning gap and offers an accessible, well-written and stimulating account for a wide range of readers.’ – Steve Brewer, European Journal of Communication
The Prudential Group Archive: Alexander Korda, London Film Productions and Denham Studios
This article examines the Prudential Group Archive, a valuable resource for the study of London Film Productions (LFP), the British film company founded by Alexander Korda in 1932. The Prudential, a long-established British life insurance and financial services company, invested in LFP at a time when the British film industry was expanding, and Denham Studios was built as a major production facility in 1936. The primary sources generated through …
Bringing ‘the whole world on to the British screen’: Back Projection and British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s
Back projection was a technique used particularly in the 1930s and 1940s to create the impression that film stars had been on location when in fact a camera recorded them in a studio acting in front of previously shot location footage projected onto a screen from behind. This article discusses its application in British studios, highlighting the contribution of key technicians to its development and refinement. Key examples are explored to show t…
Designing the ideal film studio in Britain
Abercrombie, the highly influential British town planner and architect who created the County of London Plan (1943) and Greater London Plan (1944), two seminal reports that promoted the 'new towns' movement and reforms designed to address London's growth, traffic congestion, housing conditions and distribution of public open spaces as the foundations of post-war reconstruction. 3It is widely acknowledged that these 'provided the foundation for an…
Re-Writing the Past, Autobiography and Celebrity in Agatha (1979): ‘An Imaginary Solution to an Authentic Mystery’
When crime writer Agatha Christie went missing inexplicably in December 1926, a national scandal erupted as detectives and the public searched for the author. After eleven days she turned up in a hotel in Harrogate where she had registered under a false name. While speculation ensued that she had been suffering from memory loss, or mental instability after learning that her husband wanted to leave her for another woman, the full story behind the …
Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s
Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history of how the use of color in film led the way in creating a chromatically vibrant culture. Focusing on the final decade of silent film, C hromatic Modernity portrays the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan exchange, collaboration, and experimentation.
Listening space: Lessons from artists with and without learning disabilities
In this paper, we develop an expanded conception of listening as 'being-with' and explore this in the context of creative visual arts activities with people with learning disabilities. Through a series of textual and visual interlocutions between Inclusive Artist 'Alice', Social and Cultural Geographer 'Hannah' and members of the contemporary arts group 'The Rockets', we identify how an expanded conception of listening is practiced and the result…
Film Finances and the British New Wave
This article explores the role of Film Finances Ltd in supporting the films of the British new wave focusing on six key films: Room at the Top, The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey, A Kind of Loving and Billy Liar. It evaluates what the Film Finances Archive reveals about the production of these films and their budgets and box-office performance. The article demonstrates that Film Finances played a key role in enco…
The temporalities of intermediality: Colour in cinema and the arts of the 1920s
This article presents a case study in intermediality concerning the intersection of cinema, colour, and a range of related media in the 1920s. In film history, colour is a rich yet understudied field in the 1920s, particularly in light of the recent attention paid to both early cinema colour and 1930s Technicolor. Following the constraints of the First World War, there was a surge in colour production in the early 1920s across media and national …
Introduction: Mildred Pierce, pedagogy and the canon
Told for the most part in a deceptive flashback, the Hollywood classic Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) charts the obsessive relationship between the entrepreneurial, divorced working mother Mildred (Joan Crawford) and her spoilt and snobbish daughter Veda (Ann Blyth), which develops into a murderous love triangle after the manipulative playboy Monte1 (Zachary Scott) enters their lives. Although in its heyday it was often dismissed by critic…
Consciência das cores: Natalie Kalmus e o technicolor na Grã-Bretanha
Quando o Technicolor foi visto pela primeira vez nos cinemas da Grã-Bretanha, ele foi recebido por uma onda de opiniões contraditórias, desde a queixa perplexa de que "com a tela em um ardente motim de cores é impossível se concentrar totalmente em qualquer indivíduo em particular" até a alegação de que "filmes em preto e branco em breve serão uma coisa do passado." Os modos do discurso contemporâneo a respeito da cor frequentemente abordavam o i…
Cinema, Colour and the Festival of Britain, 1951
This article compares Festival in London and Brief City, two short films produced in 1951 to celebrate and memorialize the Festival of Britain, 1951. They adopt very different formal and aesthetic approaches, with significant implications for their contrasting documentation of the festival as a mid-century marker of post-war recovery in Britain and as cinematic meditations on contemporary design, science and social democracy. One of the main diff…
The Colour dossier Introduction: The mutability of colour space
In their introduction to Color: the Film Reader, Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price reflect on the neglect of colour in film studies and note that their book, published in 2006, is intended to have a ‘galvanizing function, making clear the many issues and ideas to which one must attend in any consideration of color’.1 Since then there have indeed been significant publications on colour which similarly draw attention to its importance in the hist…
Colour consciousness: Natalie Kalmus and Technicolor in Britain
This essay discusses the arrival of Technicolor in Britain and the impact it had on prevailing practices as well as on aesthetic regimes. An analysis of Wings of the Morning (1937), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Black Narcissus (1947), films which demonstrate notable, varied and on occasion remarkable uses of Technicolor, will serve as case studies to demonstrate how concentrating on colour invites a combination of analytical and theoretical per…
Another Medium Entirely: Esther Harris, National Screen Service and Film Trailers in Britain, 1940-1960
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Budapest, 19-22 June 2008
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema
Journeys into the Haptic: Film and Architecture Travelling to/through the Cinema of the s We would like to thank several people for their role in instigating and supporting this project.First
Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the United States
Historia oral y subjetividad: Culturizando La Democracia a Partir Del Movimiento Magisterial Chiapaneco
En este artículo se incursiona en la autoetnografía al revisar los tres tránsitos teórico-metodológicos por los que pasó la autora en su investigación del movimiento magisterial chiapaneco (1978-1992). A la luz de algunas categorías de la historia oral, se reflexiona sobre el impacto de la posición epistemológica de la investigadora en el sujeto-objeto del estudio y la recuperación de la memoria histórica de un movimiento social
The Conservative Party Archives
The Conservative Party Archives Get access SARAH STREET SARAH STREET Bodleian Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 103–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.1.103 Published: 01 January 1992
El SNTE y la política educativa, 1970-1990
La autora revisa las investigaciones realizadas sobre el Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion con el proposito de determinar hasta que punto podemos entender su transformacion a partir de dos tendencias contrarias: la ampliacion del poder sindical en el sistema educativo publico y la subversion de mecanismos corporativistas, asi como su sustitucion parcial por formas democraticas formuladas por los maestros de la CNTE. Se analizan s…
Movimientos sociales y el análisis del cambio sociopolítico en México
Esta es una recapitulacion de los diversos textos (principalmente nacionales) en torno a diferentes movimientos sociales. Se senala que en Mexico se precisan los aportes de esta literatura al analisis del cambio sociopolitico en el pais, en principio para contrarrestar los ataques a los enfoques criticos que reivindican el papel de los participantes de estos movimientos en la construccion de la democracia y el cambio revolucionario. Tambien desta…
Listening space: Lessons from artists with and without learning disabilities
In this paper, we develop an expanded conception of listening as 'being-with' and explore this in the context of creative visual arts activities with people with learning disabilities. Through a series of textual and visual interlocutions between Inclusive Artist 'Alice', Social and Cultural Geographer 'Hannah' and members of the contemporary arts group 'The Rockets', we identify how an expanded conception of listening is practiced and the result…
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema
Journeys into the Haptic: Film and Architecture Travelling to/through the Cinema of the s We would like to thank several people for their role in instigating and supporting this project.First
Another Medium Entirely: Esther Harris, National Screen Service and Film Trailers in Britain, 1940-1960
Alexander Korda, prudential assurance and British film finance in the 1930s
The hays office and the defence of the British market in the 1930s
1985). The hays office and the defence of the British market in the 1930s. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 37-55
Burocracia y educación: Hacia un análisis político de la desconcentración administrativa en la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP)
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Has Mexican Education Generated Human or Political Capital
The hays office and the defence of the British market in the 1930s
1985). The hays office and the defence of the British market in the 1930s. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 37-55
La lucha por transformar el aparato burocrático de la Secretaría de Educación Pública: Fuerzas políticas y proyectos después de un quinquenio de desconcentración
Susan Street, La lucha por transformar el aparato burocrático de la Secretaría de Educación Pública: Fuerzas políticas y proyectos después de un quinquenio de desconcentración, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 47, No. 4, Actores Sociales y Política (Oct. - Dec., 1985), pp. 183-212
Alexander Korda, prudential assurance and British film finance in the 1930s
The memoir of Harry Rowson: David Lloyd George, M.P.—‘The man who saved the empire’ (1918)
Movimientos sociales y el análisis del cambio sociopolítico en México
Esta es una recapitulacion de los diversos textos (principalmente nacionales) en torno a diferentes movimientos sociales. Se senala que en Mexico se precisan los aportes de esta literatura al analisis del cambio sociopolitico en el pais, en principio para contrarrestar los ataques a los enfoques criticos que reivindican el papel de los participantes de estos movimientos en la construccion de la democracia y el cambio revolucionario. Tambien desta…
The Conservative Party Archives
The Conservative Party Archives Get access SARAH STREET SARAH STREET Bodleian Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 3, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 103–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/3.1.103 Published: 01 January 1992
El SNTE y la política educativa, 1970-1990
La autora revisa las investigaciones realizadas sobre el Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion con el proposito de determinar hasta que punto podemos entender su transformacion a partir de dos tendencias contrarias: la ampliacion del poder sindical en el sistema educativo publico y la subversion de mecanismos corporativistas, asi como su sustitucion parcial por formas democraticas formuladas por los maestros de la CNTE. Se analizan s…
Historia oral y subjetividad: Culturizando La Democracia a Partir Del Movimiento Magisterial Chiapaneco
En este artículo se incursiona en la autoetnografía al revisar los tres tránsitos teórico-metodológicos por los que pasó la autora en su investigación del movimiento magisterial chiapaneco (1978-1992). A la luz de algunas categorías de la historia oral, se reflexiona sobre el impacto de la posición epistemológica de la investigadora en el sujeto-objeto del estudio y la recuperación de la memoria histórica de un movimiento social
Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the United States
Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema
Journeys into the Haptic: Film and Architecture Travelling to/through the Cinema of the s We would like to thank several people for their role in instigating and supporting this project.First
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Budapest, 19-22 June 2008
Colour consciousness: Natalie Kalmus and Technicolor in Britain
This essay discusses the arrival of Technicolor in Britain and the impact it had on prevailing practices as well as on aesthetic regimes. An analysis of Wings of the Morning (1937), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Black Narcissus (1947), films which demonstrate notable, varied and on occasion remarkable uses of Technicolor, will serve as case studies to demonstrate how concentrating on colour invites a combination of analytical and theoretical per…
Another Medium Entirely: Esther Harris, National Screen Service and Film Trailers in Britain, 1940-1960
The Colour dossier Introduction: The mutability of colour space
In their introduction to Color: the Film Reader, Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price reflect on the neglect of colour in film studies and note that their book, published in 2006, is intended to have a ‘galvanizing function, making clear the many issues and ideas to which one must attend in any consideration of color’.1 Since then there have indeed been significant publications on colour which similarly draw attention to its importance in the hist…
Cinema, Colour and the Festival of Britain, 1951
This article compares Festival in London and Brief City, two short films produced in 1951 to celebrate and memorialize the Festival of Britain, 1951. They adopt very different formal and aesthetic approaches, with significant implications for their contrasting documentation of the festival as a mid-century marker of post-war recovery in Britain and as cinematic meditations on contemporary design, science and social democracy. One of the main diff…
The temporalities of intermediality: Colour in cinema and the arts of the 1920s
This article presents a case study in intermediality concerning the intersection of cinema, colour, and a range of related media in the 1920s. In film history, colour is a rich yet understudied field in the 1920s, particularly in light of the recent attention paid to both early cinema colour and 1930s Technicolor. Following the constraints of the First World War, there was a surge in colour production in the early 1920s across media and national …
Introduction: Mildred Pierce, pedagogy and the canon
Told for the most part in a deceptive flashback, the Hollywood classic Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) charts the obsessive relationship between the entrepreneurial, divorced working mother Mildred (Joan Crawford) and her spoilt and snobbish daughter Veda (Ann Blyth), which develops into a murderous love triangle after the manipulative playboy Monte1 (Zachary Scott) enters their lives. Although in its heyday it was often dismissed by critic…
Consciência das cores: Natalie Kalmus e o technicolor na Grã-Bretanha
Quando o Technicolor foi visto pela primeira vez nos cinemas da Grã-Bretanha, ele foi recebido por uma onda de opiniões contraditórias, desde a queixa perplexa de que "com a tela em um ardente motim de cores é impossível se concentrar totalmente em qualquer indivíduo em particular" até a alegação de que "filmes em preto e branco em breve serão uma coisa do passado." Os modos do discurso contemporâneo a respeito da cor frequentemente abordavam o i…
Film Finances and the British New Wave
This article explores the role of Film Finances Ltd in supporting the films of the British new wave focusing on six key films: Room at the Top, The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey, A Kind of Loving and Billy Liar. It evaluates what the Film Finances Archive reveals about the production of these films and their budgets and box-office performance. The article demonstrates that Film Finances played a key role in enco…
Listening space: Lessons from artists with and without learning disabilities
In this paper, we develop an expanded conception of listening as 'being-with' and explore this in the context of creative visual arts activities with people with learning disabilities. Through a series of textual and visual interlocutions between Inclusive Artist 'Alice', Social and Cultural Geographer 'Hannah' and members of the contemporary arts group 'The Rockets', we identify how an expanded conception of listening is practiced and the result…
Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s
Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe provide a revelatory history of how the use of color in film led the way in creating a chromatically vibrant culture. Focusing on the final decade of silent film, C hromatic Modernity portrays the 1920s as a pivotal and profoundly chromatic period of cosmopolitan exchange, collaboration, and experimentation.
Re-Writing the Past, Autobiography and Celebrity in Agatha (1979): ‘An Imaginary Solution to an Authentic Mystery’
When crime writer Agatha Christie went missing inexplicably in December 1926, a national scandal erupted as detectives and the public searched for the author. After eleven days she turned up in a hotel in Harrogate where she had registered under a false name. While speculation ensued that she had been suffering from memory loss, or mental instability after learning that her husband wanted to leave her for another woman, the full story behind the …
Designing the ideal film studio in Britain
Abercrombie, the highly influential British town planner and architect who created the County of London Plan (1943) and Greater London Plan (1944), two seminal reports that promoted the 'new towns' movement and reforms designed to address London's growth, traffic congestion, housing conditions and distribution of public open spaces as the foundations of post-war reconstruction. 3It is widely acknowledged that these 'provided the foundation for an…
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