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Bowling for Columbine can be seen as a Participatory documentary as well as a Observational documentary because of the amount of interviews taken and the participation of Michael Moore in many of the scenes.
Bowling for Columbine can also be seen as a Performative documentary because the perspective in which the documentary is presented to the audience. This is done through the music and shot types which dramatically plays with the audiences' emotions.
Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore is a very diverse documentary. It displays many variations of documentary genres like observational, Participatory and Performative.
Bowling for Columbine is mainly an Obseravtional documentary because the camera (most of the time) is positioned outside of the drama.
Performative documentaries stress subjective experience and emotional response to the world. They are strongly personal, unconventional, perhaps poetic and/or experimental, and might include hypothetical enactments of events designed to make us experience what it might be like for us to possess a certain perspective on the world that is not our own.
Participatory documentaries believe that it is impossible for the act of filmmaking to not influence or alter the events being filmed. What these films do is emulate the approach of the anthropologist: participant-observation. Not only is the filmmaker part of the film, we also get a sense of how situations in the film are affected or altered by their presence.
Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. The first observational documentaries date back to the 1960’s; the technological developments which made them possible include mobile lightweight cameras and portable sound recording equipment for synchronized sound.