South Seas genre

The South Seas genre is a genre spanning various expressive forms including literature, film, visual art, and entertainment that depicts the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean through an escapist narrative lens.

The first feature non-documentary film made on location was Lost and Found on a South Sea Island, shot in Tahiti.

The genre was known for its portrayal of tropical men as savages and cannibals, and women as shapely, innocent, exotic beauties.

Those that could afford tropical island vacations had to endure a weeks long ocean liner journey.

Later in the 20th century and with the advent of jet travel such lengthy treks to island paradises would be more feasible.