Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music in Film and on Your Screen Dr. David E. James Harvey Kubernik is a cornucopia of American culture, a deep-sea diver in its underwater crevices, and a midnight rambler in its darkest side-streets.  He’s onto the most important development since bebop, that is, the absolute cultural primacy of rock ’n’ roll.  He has felt, and recorded, and participated in its progress from a minatory squeal on the edge of legality to the force that fuels the movies, television, even poetry.  His new book, Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music in Film and on Your Screen, is a totally original scan across this history, uncovering major and minor players, aficionados and accomplices of every stripe.  Energetically crossing the boundaries between mediums, between what’s academic and what’s not, between the popular and the arcane, his remarkable interviews bring a much needed and thoroughly pleasurable light to a topic that’s so overwhelmingly present and so ubiquitous, it’s hard to see with clarity. David E. James is Professor of Critical Studies at the School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. He is also the author of "Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture" (London, 1996), and "The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles" (Berkeley, 2005).