For me and, let's face it, for you too, the jungle /tropical adventures & eerie lost cities is a thrilling combo, the very definition of high funwhy pretend otherwise? Jungle, safari, tropics, wilderness, mysterious lost cities
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Now one has the ingredients; and the genre is defined. What are the results? After all, the old DOX novels feature all these things, yet some might consider them as less than perfect.
We might define it as colonial romance; perhaps jungle romance, or tropical romance, might seem rather more politically correctbut it's also somewhat elusive, while colonial romance is the more straight term.
The suspense and the lively fun is naturally connected with some sexinessas one might see in, e.g., RETURN OF CHANDU, which has both the Lemuria island and the libidinous ,full of desire uncle Lugosi (does anyone know why an American sorcerer has as a niece an Egyptian princess?).
There's The City of the Dead ,in Jungle Man (1941); indeed, wild nature has to be paired with fancy history.
KONG is the masterpiece of this genreit's my primitive, as Gracq once said about Verne.
The clichés are indisputable; the interest is elsewhereare they made to work? The mere wilderness may be a bit monotonousperhaps even slightly boring; the lost cities and empires and hidden kingdoms add immensely, and project everything into fantastic history .
If you feel like you wish for a strong shot of fun, you might want to consider THE LOST CITY the perilous exploits of an electrical engineer.
Now one has the ingredients; and the genre is defined. What are the results? After all, the old DOX novels feature all these things, yet some might consider them as less than perfect.
We might define it as colonial romance; perhaps jungle romance, or tropical romance, might seem rather more politically correctbut it's also somewhat elusive, while colonial romance is the more straight term.
The suspense and the lively fun is naturally connected with some sexinessas one might see in, e.g., RETURN OF CHANDU, which has both the Lemuria island and the libidinous ,full of desire uncle Lugosi (does anyone know why an American sorcerer has as a niece an Egyptian princess?).
There's The City of the Dead ,in Jungle Man (1941); indeed, wild nature has to be paired with fancy history.
KONG is the masterpiece of this genreit's my primitive, as Gracq once said about Verne.
The clichés are indisputable; the interest is elsewhereare they made to work? The mere wilderness may be a bit monotonousperhaps even slightly boring; the lost cities and empires and hidden kingdoms add immensely, and project everything into fantastic history .
If you feel like you wish for a strong shot of fun, you might want to consider THE LOST CITY the perilous exploits of an electrical engineer.