Mumblecore
<"Mumblecore" is a name used to describe extremely low-budget comedy-drama films, usually shot on digital video and set in the United States, that feature largely improvisational acting and often cast "non-actors." These movies generally utilize hand-held shots. A majority of these flicks focus on the romantic entanglements of white, heterosexual middle- to upper-middle-class twenty- and thirty-somethings, often with artistic sensibilities, from urban areas. Andrew Bujalski's 2002 film Funny Ha Ha is often considered the first film in this increasing pool of movies. The directors and actors most associated with the movement include Bujalski, Jay and Mark Duplass (The Duplass Brothers), Greta Gerwig, Joe Swanberg, Katie Aselton, Azazel Jacobs, Aaron Katz, Lena Dunham, Alex Karpovsky, and Ronald Bronstein. Following the relative success of the Duplass Brothers' Cyrus in 2010, along with attention paid to Hollywood films that were seemingly influenced by the mumblecore aesthetic (such as Noah Baumbach's Greenberg [2010] and Sofia Coppola's Somewhere [2010]), some critics have declared mumblecore "dead," or have referred to the post-2010 films in this milieu as "post-mumblecore." These films must also be thought of in the terms of an artistic community rather than as a "movement," as many of stars and directors of these films will appear in each other's work, collaborate with them, and promote each others' works.>
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