blog post 7

I learned a little something from all of the presentations but the ones that stood out the most and that i learned the most from were new historicism and queer theory.

New Historicism caught my attention the most. I didn't know the difference between Old Historicism and New Historicism and I ended up finding out that the old hist. only looks at history from one point of view, while new hist. looks at history from all different aspects and say that history is subjective to all bias. Some of the examples the group gave us were: pilgrims being seen sort of as heros when really they were just taking credit from the native americans. Or, the nazi's and the jews. How the nazi's were normal, good people but then were brainwashed by hitler and his followers. I found these to be interesting, especially the one about the nazi's because i would have never looked at it from their point of view. One person I learned about that is of much importance is, Greenblat, who was from Ireland and the founder/face of new hist.
The other theory I found interesting is queer theory. I've never actually seen "Broke Back Mountain" but i have heard about it, and i thought it was pretty cool how they used actual clips to show us after they summarized them so we could all get a better understanding of it and it was just a good way to catch everyones attention also. The most interesting thing about the presentation was how they touched on the subject of the stereotypical gay man. usually when you think of a guy man the first thing that pops into your head isn't a rugged man's man cowboy typer, especially not one with a wife and kids. All different types of people can be gay and not everyone is the same no matter what your sexual orientation.

So going into these presentations I didn't know much about either of them but especially not new hist. and actually thought it was going to be pretty boring. however, it was one of my favorite ones and i can actually say i know something about it now.