【单选题】

While examination ofEisenstein’’ s work has yielded better understandings of film theory, such attention is rarely granted to the work of his successors.Even within the comparatively specialized field of film studies, these films remain largely ignored; they are discussed in a reductive and superficial manner when taught, typically valued solely for rejecting or contesting Hollywood norms, trivializing movements sorely in need of rejuvenation, and given the economic situation of independent film production, such ignorance generates a destructive cycle of neglect and ignorance. The stakes involved in namingEisenstein as the model of the modernist film project are especially fraught since the values implicit in such a decision help determine the availability of entire bodies of radical film. One deleterious result of applying the "Eisenstein standard" has been to make it easier than ever to remain ignorant of experimental film forms, which can uniformly be extolled as "transgressive" or "deconstructive" without serious engagement.The passage implies that the present "economic situation of independent film production and distribution" is________.

A、thriving but threatened
B．secure but inert
C．moribund but recovering
D．penurious and in need of help
E．salubrious but unpredictable