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 ==