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'Charleen' is a 1977 observational documentary film directed and shot by Ross McElwee, about his friend and former poetry teacher, Charleen Swansea.[https://mubi.com/films/charleen MUBI][https://www.filmaffinity.com/au/film985547.html FilmAffinity]

Summary



McElwee follows Charleen over a month in her life in North Carolina, where she still teaches poetry and engages in interracial flirtation (to the titillation of her students), and documents her friendship with American poet Ezra Pound.[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/news/ross/bostonmag.html THE MEANING OF LIFE-FRONTLINE-PBS]

Production



McElwee shot the film as part of his graduate thesis at MIT.[https://books.google.com/books?id=HVygqYMVP2wC&pg=PA444&lpg=PA444&dq=charleen+ross+mcelwee&source=bl&ots=-XZjkO-dat&sig=Sn2qP9LlPSxVYaLKeHLeAV_U7hY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjliJfr9vLdAhWJ54MKHbxYAaU4FBDoATAEegQIBRAB#v=onepage&q=charleen%20ross%20mcelwee&f=false Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 by David O. Cook-Google Books]

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