ABSTRACT
Class struggles were central themes for the Red Classics. In the original versions of this genre, heroes and villains were portrayed as ideological opposites in terms of class struggle. However, the class struggle discourse has been radically revised in the TV adaptations. This chapter explores the politics of class by examining the representation of heroes and villains in the original texts and their televisual adaptations, in which the themes of class have been displaced with a universal human vision. In the face of growing social disparity, this strategy is political and telling of a social reality drastically different from before.
