schlockmeister

noun

1. (Canada, US, derogatory, slang)A writer of schlock; an author, film director, etc. who produces tasteless and inferior works.

   “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.”