{"id":22,"date":"2025-10-21T02:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:26:35","slug":"concepts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following are some of the key concepts that we cover in this course.  We may add more as we go along.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row-expand\">\n<div class=\"span3\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/excess\/\">excess<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/bloat\/\">bloat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/narrative\/\">narrative<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/epic\/\">epic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/realism\/\">realism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/world-building\/\">world-building<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/commodity\/\">commodity<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/commodification\/\">commodification<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/tv\/\">tv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/film\/\">film<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/technology\/\">technology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/screens\/\">screens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/AI\/\">AI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"span3\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/time\/\">time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/duration\/\">duration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/materiality\/\">materiality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/spacing\/\">pacing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/affect\/\">affect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/mortality\/\">mortality<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"span3\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/attention\/\">attention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/absorption\/\">absorption<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/punishment\/\">punishment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/boredome\/\">boredom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/skipping\/\">skipping<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/tag\/summary\/\">summary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are some of the key concepts that we cover in this course. We may add more as we go along. excess bloat narrative epic realism world-building commodity \/ commodification tv film technology screens AI time duration materiality pacing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/concepts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}