Read the following paragraph and paraphrase the authors point in your own words.
- The authenticity of a documentary is ‘deeply linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images are linked to notions of realism and the idea that documentary images bear evidence of events that actually happened, by virtue of the indexical relationship between image and reality’.
Horness Roe. A. (2013, Animated Documentary) argues that documentary authenticity is “deeply related to the notion of realism and evidence of real events in documentary images”. There is an indexical relationship between documentary images and reality. If the images are evidence of real events and conform to the concept of realism, then the documentary is real.
*Realism refers to accurate, detailed and unadorned depictions of nature or contemporary life.