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These aspects of language are social, philosophical, artistic, largely ignored by linguists, sometimes out of devotion to what is perceived as the scientific method, sometimes out of sheer philistinism and the inability to exercise taste, sometimes out of abject ignorance.
They demand subsidies and threaten to brand the middle-class with philistinism if it resists.
But even their lesser films, according to auterist critics, could be distinguished from mere studio hackwork by the reiteration of a unique cinematic vocabulary and by an implicit but unmistakable sense of solitary genius in conflict with bureaucratic philistinism.
In addition, almost all the philistinism for which Hollywood is attacked today--the reliance on big stars, the tendency to mimic rather than to innovate, the reliance on sequels--was characteristic of Hollywood's heyday as well.