Memories and Suspicions: A Study Guide to 'Casting JonBenet'

In Kitty Green's documentary, inhabitants of Boulder, Colorado, reflect on the horrific – and, to this day, unsolved – murder of JonBenét Ramsey. Ostensibly, they are there to audition for a film about the events, but it turns out that it is they – their lives, connections to the case and theories as to what transpired on that fateful Christmas night in 1996 – who are the real subjects. Closely analysing the film, Katy Marriner offers some thought-provoking discussion points for senior secondary classrooms.

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New & Notable, senior secondary, documentary ethics, media, post-truth, re-enactment