Stuart Hood

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Stuart Hood
Born
Stuart Clink Hood

(1915-12-17)17 December 1915
BBC Television Service
(1961–1963)

Stuart Clink Hood (17 December 1915 – 31 January 2011)

translator and a former British television producer and Controller of BBC Television
.

Life

Hood was born in Edzell, Angus, Scotland. His father was an infant school headmaster, firstly in Edzell and then in Montrose. After school Hood attended the University of Edinburgh between 1934 and 1938.[2]

During the

Second World War Hood served in the British Army as an Intelligence Officer. He spent a year in Italy as a prisoner of war before joining the partisans.[3]
His memoir of this period, Pebbles from my Skull, was published in 1963; a revised version appeared in 1985. It is an unromantic account of the partisans in Italy and their relationship to the official allied forces.

From 1961 until 1963, Hood was the Controller of the

Rediffusion London
as Controller was also brief.

During the 1970s, he was Professor of Film and Television at the

Royal College of Art, School of Film and Television.[6]

He was active in the

ACTT union and was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party[1] between 1973 and 1978.[7] In his youth, he had been a member of the Young Communist League and then the Communist Party of Great Britain.[8]

In 1988, he hosted an edition of

After Dark called "What Do Women Want" and featuring among others James Dearden, Mary Whitehouse, Joan Wyndham, Naim Attallah and Shere Hite
.

Writings

Hood gained a reputation as a translator, beginning with Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs in 1946.[9] He also translated Erich Fried, Aldo Busi, Dario Fo, Dino Buzzati, Goffredo Parise and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

His first book, The Circle of the Minotaur appeared in 1950. It contained two novels: The Circle of the Minotaur itself and The Fisherman's Daughter. It was followed by another novel, Since the Fall, in 1955.

Pebbles from My Skull, about the time he spent with

partisans in war-time Italy
, was published in 1963 (Hutchinson) and revised in 1985 (Carcanet).

He wrote several books that analyze and critique the broadcasting industry, including A Survey of Television (1967), The Mass Media (Studies in Contemporary Europe) (1972), Radio and Television (Professions) (1975), Questions of Broadcasting with Garret O'Leary (1990), Behind the Screens: The Structure of British Television (1994), and On Television with Thalia Tabary-Peterssen (1997). He also wrote some more novels, including A Storm From Paradise (1985), The Upper Hand (1987) and A Den of Foxes (1991).

Hood co-authored "Introducing the Holocaust" in the "Introducing..." book series with Haim Bresheeth released in 1997[10][11] and also translated the anti-Nazi German novelist Theodor Plievier's novel Moscow, which shows the 1941 Battle of Moscow from both German and Soviet perspectives.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Winston, Brian (22 December 2011). "Obituary: Stuart Hood". The Guardian.
  2. ^ Hood, Stuart; Bob Lumley (1988). "Keeping Faith: An Interview with Stuart Hood". Edinburgh Review. 78–9., p. 175.
  3. ^ Edinburgh Review, 1988, p. 183.
  4. ^ Edinburgh Review, 1988, p. 195
  5. ^ Lewisohn, Mark (2004). "When the lights went out". BBC. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  6. ^ "Hood, Stuart: British Media Executive/Producer/Educator". Museum of Broadcast Communication. Retrieved 3 June 2008.
  7. ^ Edinburgh Review, 1988, p. 202.
  8. ^ Peter Lewis, "Remembering Stuart Hood", Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, January 2012.
  9. ^ Edinburgh Review, 1988, p. 186.
  10. ^ "Allen & Unwin - Australia". www.allenandunwin.com.
  11. ^ https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-5447-4-sample.pdf
  12. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 29 March 2021.

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