 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Goona-goona epic" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(May 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
"Goona-goona epic" refers to a particular type of native-cultureexploitation film set in remote parts of the Far East, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, and the South Pacific. These include documentaries (often of questionable authenticity) and dramas, both of which rely heavily ontravelogue andstock footage scenes (and sometimes fabricated scenes) ofsemi-nude native peoples performing exotic rituals and customs.
In Hollywood trade magazines "goona-goona" was a descriptive word for films or photos showing women of color with bare breasts,[1] usually in a supposed spirit of ethnographic interest likeNational Geographic.
The wordgoona-goona comes from the 1932 filmGoona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama of the Island of Bali byAndre Roosevelt andArmand Denis.[2] Supposedly "goona-goona" is anaphrodisiac or "love powder" made from a narcotic plant. In Indonesian, the word is spelt as"guna-guna" and actually means a type of evil magic[3] or a love spell cast upon an unwilling victim.[4]
 | This film genre–related article is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
