The Pocket Essentials

A typical book cover from the series

The Pocket Essentials is a series of small, A6 sized books on various subjects. The publisher is also known as Pocket Essentials. Each book is written by a different author. The books have been credited with being full of rare information, though there are no pictures.

Books in the series

Film directors

• Woody Allen
• Tim Burton
• Jane Campion
• John Carpenter
• Jackie Chan
• Coen Brothers
• David Cronenberg
• Clint Eastwood
• Terry Gilliam
• Hal Hartley
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Mike Hodges
• Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Stanley Kubrick
• Spike Lee
• Sergio Leone
• George Lucas
• David Lynch
• Michael Mann
• Brian De Palma
• Sam Peckinpah
• George A. Romero
• Martin Scorsese
• Steven Soderbergh
• Stephen Spielberg
• Oliver Stone
• Quentin Tarantino
• Orson Welles
• Billy Wilder

Film genres

• Blaxploitation Cinema
• Bollywood
• Carry On Films
• German Expressionism
• French New Wave
• Hammer Films
• Horror Films
• Science Fiction Films
• Slasher Movies
• Spaghetti Westerns
• Vampire Films
• Vietnam War Movies

Film subjects

• Animation
• Great British Movies
• Jackie Chan
• Filming on a Microbudget
• Film Music
• Film Studios
• Audrey Hepburn
• Laurel and Hardy
• Bruce Lee
• Marx Brothers
• Steve McQueen
• Marilyn Monroe
• The Oscars
• Writing a Screenplay

History

• Alchemy & Alchemists
• American Civil War
• Ancient Greece
• The Black Death
• The Crusades
• English Civil War
• Globalisation
• American Indian Wars
• Jack the Ripper
• Who Shot JFK?
• Nazi War Trials
• Nelson
• The Rise of New Labour
• Occult London
• Witchcraft

Miscellaneous

• How to Succeed as a Sports Agent
• Robert Crumb
• Doctor Who
• The Simpsons
• Stock Market Essentials
• The Universe
• Urban Legends
• Videogaming

Ideas

• Alchemy and Alchemists
• Bisexuality
• Conspiracy theories
• Feminism
• Freemasonry
• Freud and Psychoanalysis
• The Gnostics
• Holy Grail
• Nietzsche
• Postmodernism
• Psychogeography
• Saints
• UFOs
• Utopia

Literature

• Agatha Christie
• American Noir
• The Beat Generation
• Creative Writing
• Cyberpunk
• Philip K. Dick
• Historical Noir
• Hitchhiker's Guide
• Literary Theory
• London Writing
• Noir Fiction
• Nordic Noir
• Sherlock Holmes
• Alan Moore
• Terry Pratchett
• William Shakespeare
• Georges Simenon
• Tintin

Music

• Beastie Boys
• The Beatles
• Film Music
• How to Succeed in the Music Business
• The Madchester Scene
• Bruce Springsteen
• Jethro Tull

External links

• The Official Site