0 an artistic work, usually of low quality, that has been created quickly just to earn money:
Her most recent potboiler was one of last year's best-selling paperbacks.
Developed in the age of capital, the term "potboiler" rests on a curious proposition about production: that artists can produce their own fakes.
Paying attention to the "potboiler," is to pay attention to art that changes property relations, just not for the greater good.
The designation "potboiler," therefore, purports to describe quality of art, but it is as much a designation of the artist as the art.
A scrappier mode of inquiry, following the potboiler, nonetheless yields a useful revelation about the artist and subject-formation.
That genre is the potboiler.
Later he would distance himself from these works, dismissing them as' potboilers', only painted in order to put food on the table.
His potboilers enmeshed a character in a crisis, after which suspense was enhanced by switching to other, related plot lines.
Paisa has many things going for it by way of standing out from routine potboilers.
