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Bill Routt [aka "William D. Routt"] sometimes writes about film and popular art and stuff.

Interests

• Popular Art. "Bad" art (art that is not very good and art that is bad for you). Black music (African, Latin, Caribbean, jazz, r&b). Dance music (disco, techno, "ethno-beat", etc.). Comics, incl. manga. Crime, fantasy and science fiction and films. HK & Japanese popular film, including animation.
• Film History. Early Cinema. Film Culture (how films have been written and thought about). Early Australian cinema.
• Theory/Thinking/Writing. Interpretation. Deleuze et cie. Structuralism and post-Structuralism (Continental Theory). Blanchot, Lecercle, Levinas, Nancy, Schefer. Aesthetics (!).
• RPGs. Scenario writing. Playing. Systems. Computer "rpgs".
  • The Tombstone Canyon Scenarios (two closely-related westerns written for the It Came From The Late, Late, Late Show rpg system) .
  • The Arlen Entourage (two scenarios set in Hollywood and featuring a team of four extraordinary player characters, written for the Call of Cthulhu rpg system).

Recent activity

There is a lot of (fairly academic) stuff under this heading, most of it Not Of Much General Interest. So, if you want to know more, you have to click to find out.