Gypsies, Children, and Criminals: Anti-authority Themes in Early British Silent Film.

The article discusses the presentation of the relationship between people in authority and those who oppose them in motion pictures in Great Britain. The presentation on their relationship greatly affect the society in terms of emotion and social correspondence. There are films that presents feelings of resentment repressed against those who controlled their lives and films of these genre would be popular depending on the social class of the audience. Lower class viewers like rough amusements, chases and spectacles but upper class prefer sensuous and gentle films. Gypsies, children, criminals and antagonists appear in films that represent attacks on conventional manners and the authoritative structures of the society.