Having edited film scholarship for over 10 years, film journalism for over 20, and noir fiction and criticism for the last five (while teaching university film studies since 2007), I'm thrilled to launch Channel Academic Publishing, the new scholarly imprint of BearManor Media.

With publisher Ben Ohmart and consulting editor Gary D. Rhodes, we are excited to bridge the contributors and readership of BearManor with the scholarly film and media studies community. Channel Academic will also focus on genre studies in various media, a focus of our Crime Classics series (featuring short monographs of films but also novels, graphic fiction, and other mediums). It’s currently our largest one with several forthcoming titles, including Jeremy Carr’s on Scarface (1932) and Roberto Curti’s on Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing, along with Woody Haut's Kiss Me Deadly: The Great Whatsit of Film Noir (the last, from our populist-oriented line, Crime Inc., coming in September 2027). Multiple media forms will also appear in our Black Speculative, African Horror, and Cross-Genre Media Monographs series, for which Eugen Bacon serves as series editor (the premiere volume on The Brother from Another Planet, by Audrey T. Williams), while leading horror scholar, programmer, and documentary filmmaker Alexandra Heller-Nicholas serves as series editor of Women Horror Directors (titles forthcoming). These series appear along with one on television (the premiere title,  Downton Abbey: The Estate and the Eras, by Ellen Hernandez, coming August 2027), and Cult Film/TV and Music, with will launch The Blair Witch Project: Josh’s Blair Witch Mix – An Absent Soundtrack Found, by Heller-Nicholas (coming August 2027, from the author of 1000 Women in Horror, from BearManor, and writer/producer of the documentary adaptation, from Shudder). Soon to follow will be her collection of criticism, Girls and Other Monsters: Writing on Film, 2005-2025, with a foreword by Kier-La Janisse, from our Criticism in the 21st Century series. Channel Academic will also launch the Indie Film Notebooks, which collect script versions and other materials from productions, along with new interviews, with volumes on The Saddest Music in the World, by Guy Maddin and George Toles, followed by Eddie Muller's The Grand Inquisitor. 

We hope you are intrigued by our titles and would love any feedback you have. Also, we encourage potential authors to contact us, along those interested in a series editorship. 

Matthew Sorrento

Editorial Director, Channel Academic Publishing

msorrento AT channelacademic.com