ANNOUNCEMENT: Channel Academic Publishing Launches as a Scholarly Imprint of BearManor Media, Featuring Crime Classics
I’m very excited to share that we have launched Channel Academic Publishing, a scholarly imprint of BearManor Media. With Ben Ohmart as publisher, Gary D. Rhodes as Advisory Editor, and yours truly as Editorial Director, we have dedicated CA to bridging the gap between popular readership and the scholarly community in film, TV, and genre studies.
As a peer reviewed imprint, Channel Academic features the book series Crime Classics, shorter monographs on single titles featuring the theme in film, television, fiction, and other media, with a close study of the work’s importance to genre and the history of its media form. Current titles include
- Kiss Me Deadly: In Search of Noir’s Great Whatsit by Woody Haut (from BearManor Crime Inc.) coming September 2026
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion: Excavating the Repression of Civilization by Roberto Curti
- Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me(1952): Citizen Ford and American Culture by M. Keith Booker
- The Killers (1946): The Steps of Fate by Thomas M. Puhr
- The Killing: The Reconstructed Heist by Roberto Curti
- The Lady from Shanghai: Film Noir’s Hall of Mirrors by James Morrison
- Scarface (1932): Roaring Genre and Authorship by Jeremy Carr
- The Untouchables (1959-63): Crime and Moral Panic on Early Television by Ron Wilson
Other series on topics with little attention include
– Black Speculative Monographs (series editor, Eugen Bacon; the debut volume on John Sayles’ The Brother from Another Planet by Audrey T. Williams)
– Women Horror Directors (series editor, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas);
– Music and Cult Film/TV;
– Contemporary TV Classics;
– Critics of the 21st Century;
– and others.
The imprint will also feature the series “I Worked with…,” interview collections with industry members that have collaborated with a known star, screenwriter, or director.
We’ll also publish the Indie Film Notebooks, volumes collecting script versions, archival documents, and related ephemera on a given film, with titles forthcoming on Eddie Muller’s The Grand Inquisitor and The Saddest Music in the World by Guy Maddin and George Toles.
Channel Academic will launch with monographs on The Blair Witch Project: Josh’s Blair Witch Mix, by Heller-Nicholas and Downton Abbey by Ellen Hernandez (both coming in August, presale soon), with volumes on Kiss Me Deadly and The Killer Inside Me by M. Keith Booker soon after, and many others to follow.
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Many thanks to everyone, and special thanks to Ben and Gary, for bringing me on board, and all the authors and series editors who have joined us.
Matthew Sorrento
Editorial Director
Channel Academic Publishing
Editor, Retreats from Oblivion and Film International Online
Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon 