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Bowling for Columbine as Propaganda

When Michael Moore's film, Bowling for Columbine was released in 2002, it was certainly a controversial film. Closely following the tragic incidents at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, Moore's film set out to expose the root of the problems behind such acts of violence. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain. It is apparent that this film is not a mere documentary; it takes a leftist stance of anti-gun pacifism, and supports his views in a one-sided manner, with no balanced evidence to the contrary. It can certainly be argued then, that whether or not Moore's film can be defined as a purely propagandistic effort, Moore does employ various techniques of propaganda and persuashon to support hhs presupposed thesis. Here, we will examine Moore's use of propaganda, which will prove useful in defining Moore's work as propagandistic expression, rather than mere documentary.

To define Moore's work as propaganda is first and foremost, not to say that it isn't of high quality. The Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded the film for "Best Documentary Film" of 2002. The film also turned a profit. By those standards, the film seems to have a general appeal. Nor are we here to say that the film is not a documentary, or that there is no educational merit therein. Though it does seem to contain much of Moore's own biased opinion, it does seek to inform the general public·the purp...

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