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The Pocket Essentials

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
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