schlockmeister

1. (slang, derogatory, chiefly Canada, US) A writer of schlock; an author, film director, etc. who produces tasteless and inferior works.Examples: "Or he could be viewed as a schlockmeister lowering standards for an inarticulate public, especially women—so often conceived as mass-cultural dupes."; "Hearing Mamet call Spielberg a pretentious schlockmeister was even more shocking to the alderman—to all the aldermen present, in fact, and to Daley, too—than hearing him say he hadn't seen Private Ryan."CanadaUSderogatoryslang