• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Who Do You Think You Are? : Intimate Pasts Made Public
  • Contributor: Lynch, Claire
  • Published: Project MUSE, 2011
  • Published in: Biography, 34 (2011) 1, Seite 108-118
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1353/bio.2011.0015
  • ISSN: 1529-1456
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  • Description: The hugely successful BBC television series Who Do You Think You Are? ™ follows celebrities tracing their family trees as part of a journey of self discovery in a format described here as “biogravision.” The show’s popularity runs in parallel with the rise in genealogy made possible by digital archives. What impact has this had on modes of self-narration and the move between private and public histories?