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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
Origination:
Footnote:
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?