PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Nichols, Bill TI - Documentary Film and the Modernist Avant-Garde DP - 2003 Jun 1 TA - Iluminace PG - 49--72 VI - 15 IP - 2 IS - 0862397X AB - The birth of documentary film in early cinema and its creators. The relationship of documentary film to the modernist avant-garde. Narrative structure and modernist practices. The development of documentary after 1939.