Paul Zinder is a filmmaker who makes documentaries about fascinating people and compelling cultural experiences. His award-winning work has screened at over 80 international film festivals, including the Los Angeles Film Festival (2008), and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (2017).

He’s also a writer who specialises in film genre and cult television. Paul edited the collection The Multiple Worlds of Fringe: Essays on the J. J. Abrams’ Science Fiction Series (with Tanya R. Cochran and Sherry Ginn), which was published by McFarland in 2014.

Paul’s writing also appears in Women in the Western (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Justified and Philosophy (Open Court Press, 2015), Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990 (Scarecrow Press, 2013), The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Investigating Veronica Mars: Essays on the Teen Detective Series (McFarland, 2011), and Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies (I.B. Tauris, 2007).