Mediatizing memory
History, affect and identity in Who Do You Think You Are
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12599331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne-Marie Kramer (University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 428-445 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367549411404616 |
| OpenAlex | W2032096194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 21 |
Along with Australia, Canada and the USA, contemporary British society is immersed in a seemingly unprecedented boom in the family heritage industry. Drawing on recent work in memory studies which attends to the relationship between individual and collective historical experiences, this article analyses the celebrity genealogy BBC TV programme Who Do You Think You Are?, as well as viewers’ and critics’ reception of it, to problematize genealogy as a form of mediated or mediatized memory practice which mobilizes traces of the past through the idiom of family. It asks: what is the role of genealogy in facilitating the relationship between identity and memory, both for celebrity participants and viewers? How does television make memories remotely accessible, and how do viewers engage with such modes of accessing the past
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Boom · Collective memory · Epistemology · Historical memory · Humanities · Identity (music · Media studies · Memory work · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Communication · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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What pulls ancestral tourists ‘home’? An analysis of ancestral tourist motivations
Performing genealogy through travel narratives
Telling Multi-Dimensional Family Histories
A Multi-Faceted and Relational Approach to Gay Men's Identities
Material Affinities
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What Can Dead People Teach Us? Genealogy, Commemoration, and Change
Who do you think they were? How family historians make sense of social position and inequality in the past
Practising family history
Queering the kinship story
What Do Animals Mean to You
Save As … Digital Memories
The Mediatisation of Memory
Consuming History
On Collective Memory
Epilogue
Televising history
Pieces of me
The Essential Force of the Clan”
A Fiction (Un)like any other
Mediated memories
Geographies of relatedness
The Family Historian and Temporal Orientations Towards the Ancestral Past
The Generation of Postmemory
Macpherson Country
Genealogy and Sociology
Kinship, Affinity and Connectedness
Knowing where you've come from
Feminism and Cultural Memory
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |