Melvin Lax, Wei Cai, and Min Xu
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198567769
- eISBN:
- 9780191718359
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567769.003.0017
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
This chapter looks at methods used for spectral analysis of economic time series and other forms including microwave devices and global warming. It examines how the spectrum of economic time series ...
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This chapter looks at methods used for spectral analysis of economic time series and other forms including microwave devices and global warming. It examines how the spectrum of economic time series can be evaluated to detect and separate seasonal and long-term trends, whether one can devise a trading strategy using this information, or how one can determine the presence of a long-term trend such as global warming from climate statistics. A study of economic time series by David J. Thomson is reviewed. For example, studies of global warming are sensitive to whether one uses the solar year, sidereal year, the equatorial year, or any of several additional choices. The Wiener–Khinchine and Wold theorems are examined, along with means, correlations, and the Karhunen–Loeve theorem, Slepian functions, discrete prolate spheroidal sequence, Thomson's procedure, adaptive weighting, and trend removal and seasonal adjustment.Less
This chapter looks at methods used for spectral analysis of economic time series and other forms including microwave devices and global warming. It examines how the spectrum of economic time series can be evaluated to detect and separate seasonal and long-term trends, whether one can devise a trading strategy using this information, or how one can determine the presence of a long-term trend such as global warming from climate statistics. A study of economic time series by David J. Thomson is reviewed. For example, studies of global warming are sensitive to whether one uses the solar year, sidereal year, the equatorial year, or any of several additional choices. The Wiener–Khinchine and Wold theorems are examined, along with means, correlations, and the Karhunen–Loeve theorem, Slepian functions, discrete prolate spheroidal sequence, Thomson's procedure, adaptive weighting, and trend removal and seasonal adjustment.
Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501736094
- eISBN:
- 9781501736117
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501736094.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The “New Hollywood” that emerged in the late sixties is now widely recognized as an era of remarkable filmmaking, when directors enjoyed a unique autonomy to craft ambitious, introspective movies ...
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The “New Hollywood” that emerged in the late sixties is now widely recognized as an era of remarkable filmmaking, when directors enjoyed a unique autonomy to craft ambitious, introspective movies that evinced a cinematic world of hard choices, complex interpersonal relationships, compromised heroes, and uncertain outcomes. The New Hollywood Revisited brings together a remarkable collection of authors (some of whom wrote about the New Hollywood as it unfolded), to revisit this unique era in American cinema (circa 1967-1976). It was a decade in which a number of extraordinary factors – including the end of a half-century-old censorship regime and economic and demographic changes to the American film audience – converged and created a new type of commercial film, imprinted with the social and political context of the times: the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, women’s liberation, economic distress, urban decay, and, looming, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon presidency. This volume offers the opportunity to look back, with nearly fifty years hindsight, at a golden age in American filmmaking.Less
The “New Hollywood” that emerged in the late sixties is now widely recognized as an era of remarkable filmmaking, when directors enjoyed a unique autonomy to craft ambitious, introspective movies that evinced a cinematic world of hard choices, complex interpersonal relationships, compromised heroes, and uncertain outcomes. The New Hollywood Revisited brings together a remarkable collection of authors (some of whom wrote about the New Hollywood as it unfolded), to revisit this unique era in American cinema (circa 1967-1976). It was a decade in which a number of extraordinary factors – including the end of a half-century-old censorship regime and economic and demographic changes to the American film audience – converged and created a new type of commercial film, imprinted with the social and political context of the times: the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, women’s liberation, economic distress, urban decay, and, looming, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon presidency. This volume offers the opportunity to look back, with nearly fifty years hindsight, at a golden age in American filmmaking.
David Thomson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501736094
- eISBN:
- 9781501736117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501736094.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
In this chapter, legendary critic David Thomson revisits Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View, one of the signature “paranoid thrillers” of the 1970s—a film that offers itself as a color film noir for ...
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In this chapter, legendary critic David Thomson revisits Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View, one of the signature “paranoid thrillers” of the 1970s—a film that offers itself as a color film noir for the 70s. According to Thomson, Pakula's exploration of paranoia was as filled with delight as dread. Looking back, we can see the film as a step in the progress of Warren Beatty (the star you dare not trust), as Pakula painted a portrait of the spreading unease of the era with an evocation of the anti-social killer personality - a type that would be terribly fulfilled in the years to come.Less
In this chapter, legendary critic David Thomson revisits Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View, one of the signature “paranoid thrillers” of the 1970s—a film that offers itself as a color film noir for the 70s. According to Thomson, Pakula's exploration of paranoia was as filled with delight as dread. Looking back, we can see the film as a step in the progress of Warren Beatty (the star you dare not trust), as Pakula painted a portrait of the spreading unease of the era with an evocation of the anti-social killer personality - a type that would be terribly fulfilled in the years to come.
