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Definition of Potboilers

Potboiler
Potboiler Pot"boil`er, n. A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant]

Meaning of Potboilers from wikipedia

- " Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks. Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp...
- realistic outlook of urban middle class on cinema in 1974, an era when potboilers were ruling Bollywood, a genre which was later called the Middle Cinema...
- the term dime novel has been used to refer to quickly written, lurid potboilers, usually as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized but superficial...
- album Superunknown "a far better Sabbath album than this by-the-numbers potboiler". AllMusic's Bradley Torreano called Cross Purposes "the first album since...
- "Game Changer: Ram Charan tries hard to salvage a cliched political potboiler". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 10 January 2025. Bhatia, Amit (10 January...
- United States (1956). He later wrote a series of po****r genre novels and potboilers in the 1970s and 1980s. Willi Heinrich was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg...
- original on 23 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013. "Commercial potboiler". The Hindu. 8 October 2005. Archived from the original on 25 September...
- by Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 May 2024. "Average Potboiler". Rediff. 15 January 2015. Archived from the original on 16 January 2015...
- to make into a film." After meeting with Thompson and her producers, Potboiler Productions, Murphy was offered a screenwriting fee and co-screenwriting...
- and said the film "binds a lonely young woman's love story to a legal potboiler", but commended the cast's performance, especially Edgar-Jones's "magnetic...