单选题 Which of the following is most analogous to the fate that the experimental films, described above, have received as a result of their association with Eisenstein's work?

• (A) A lesser-known author is discovered to have influenced a more famous one, and his works are rescued from anonymity.
• (B) An experimental artistic tradition falls into decline as a result of its practitioners adopting the idiom of a more popular one.
• (C) A popular composer's oeuvre is held up as the epitome of the genre, so that music critics praise his pupil's work without bothering to listen to it.
• (D) The interest in an archeological method diminishes over time, largely out of the failure of its inventor to generate new results.
• (E) A painter rebels against the advice of her teacher, after critics observe that her own work is indistinguishable from his.