British Cinema and Colour Technologies

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Professor Sarah Street University of Bristol
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Professor Lucia Nagib University of Leeds

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Abstract

The seminar will discuss the impact of colour technologies on British cinema, considering the role they played in extending, and, on occasion, confirming, the boundaries of what many understood 'British cinema' to mean. Examples will be drawn from before the 1950s, when colour films were in the minority and when colour was being debated by film industry professionals and theorists. The seminar will also introduce some of the methodological and conceptual issues involved in the study of colour film.

Biography

Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. Her 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; 2nd 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, co-edited with Linda Fitzsimmons, 2000);
  • Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA (Continuum, 2002);
  • The Titanic in Myth and Memory (I.B. Tauris, co-edited with Tim Bergfelder, 2004);
  • Black Narcissus (I.B. Tauris, 2005);
  • Queer Screen: The Queer Reader (Routledge, co-edited with Jackie Stacey, 2007); and
  • Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema (co-authored with Tim Bergfelder and Sue Harris, Amsterdam University Press, 2007).

She is currently completing a project on colour films in Britain, 1900-55.