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, 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 on Kiss Me Deadly (the last, from our populist-oriented line, Crime Inc.). Multiple media forms will also appear in our Black Speculative Fiction and Media 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, on the series Downton Abbey, by Ellen Hernandez), Indie Film Notebooks (featuring script versions and other materials from a production), and Cult Film/TV and Music, with will launch Josh’s Blair Witch Mix by Heller-Nicholas (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, collecting 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

msorrento AT channelacademic.com