No loans today : South Central Los Angeles / a film by Lisanne Skyler.

Centering on the ABC Loan Co., a twenty-five year old pawnshop/checkcashing outlet, No Loans Today documents daily life in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles. The film explores the lives of several people who've either chosen or been forced to remain in this community. With...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: First Run/Icarus Films
Other Authors: Skyler, Lisanne (Film director, Film producer, Editor of moving image work)
Redpath, Mark (Editor of moving image work)
Salsano, Federico (director of photography.)
Language:English
Published: [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]
Subjects:
Pawnbroking > California > Los Angeles.
Check cashing services > California > Los Angeles.
Poor > California > Los Angeles > Finance, Personal.
Poor > California > Los Angeles > Interviews.
African American business enterprises > California > Los Angeles.
African Americans > Employment > California > Los Angeles.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Economic conditions.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Attitudes.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Interviews.
Gangs > California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions.
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social conditions.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Genre:
Interviews.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Alexander Street)
Physical Description:1 streaming video file (55 min.) : digital, sound, color
Variant Title:
South Central Los Angeles
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Centering on the ABC Loan Co., a twenty-five year old pawnshop/checkcashing outlet, No Loans Today documents daily life in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles. The film explores the lives of several people who've either chosen or been forced to remain in this community. With interviews and cinema-verité scenes of day-to-day living, No Loans Today examines the relationship between pawnshops and checkcashing outlets--also known as 'fringe banks'--to other economic problems that this community endures, such as crime and unemployment. The recent proliferation of fringe banks completes a cycle of economic marginalization that began when industries left the area and banks began to redline South Central against business loans. Portraying the pawnshop as a metaphor for survival, the film explores economic and psychological marginalization, and reveals the unseen resiliency of the people of this community.
Note:Title from title frames.
Originally produced by: Lisanne Skyler, ©1995.
Call Number:HG2103.L67 N65 2016
Interest Grade Level:
10 and up.
Credits:Producer/director, Lisanne Skyler ; editors, Mark Redpath, Lisanne Skyler ; director of photography, Federico Salsano.
System Details:System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description:
Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 8, 2016).