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By then, he had acquired a “schlockmeister” reputation, as he put it, for directing broad and sometimes bawdy comedies.

But high art was never his ambition, and his sensibility in his waning years was closer to schlockmeisters like Russ Meyer than provocateurs like Arbus.

The show also made room for, say, a segment in which John Waters exchanged notes with the gore schlockmeister Herschell Gordon Lewis and an entire episode about animals in film.

While this was, indeed, a technical process that involved a great deal of skill and care, audiences eventually lumped it in with schlockmeisters like William Castle buzzing seats for the Vincent Price film The Tingler.

Or he could be viewed as a schlockmeister lowering standards for an inarticulate public, especially women — so often conceived as mass-cultural dupes.