"Red Classics" Film Adaptation

In recent30years, adapting “The Red Classics” into TV drama has become an artistic creation and popular culture phenomenon, and has caused widespread concerns in society. Thisphenomenon has a significant meaning for film and TV drama creation. It promotes a healthydevelopment in public culture, strengthens the building of socialist spiritual civilization, and is beneficial for building a harmonious society. China’s TV drama starts relatively late, on onehand, because of a weak and inexperienced team, original TV drama script is difficult to meetthe demand for production. Under such conditions, the first choice for all TV drama producers in China is to select a suitable and adaptable novel. On the other hand, the classical novels have been recognized by the public in terms of artistic achievement and ideological level, especially “Red Classics” novels, which can enhance the quality of the film and TV dramas, are favored by most production teams. Thus this kind of adaptation has gradually become a creative trend. As a media, the adaptations of "Red Classics” in films and TV dramas’ present not only a historical picture, but also a cultural expression. The image of the history is not a simple reproduction of the politics, but a kind of historical shape for the education in modern deconstruction or reconstruction. It embodies the complicities and tensions of thetransitional period ofculture in China. This phenomenon clearly indicates the value of the culture structure and meanings in the transitional period of modern China.Through the four parts of this paper, the author elaborates the situations of the "Red Classics" adaptation in TV drama. Firstly through various views towards the "Red Classics" define the meaning of "Red Classics", the author analyses the course of development of the "RedClassics" adaptation in films and TV dramas. The author also analyses the chinization, era, and cultural perspectives under the Marxist Literary Theory embodied in the "Red Classics".In the second part, the author provides the division of the different types of "Red Classics", and puts forward the existing problems in the adaptation process, as well as solutions. The author also poses a reasonable analysis in this adaptation trend.The third part contains the study of theaesthetics and humanistic concern in the process of "Red Classics" adaptation. And the fourth part analysis the market trends and the practical significance of the "Red Classics" TV drama. The analysis covers the lack of original movies and television resources, audiences, commercial value analysis "Red Classics" TV drama adaptation of necessity.And the fourth part analysis the market trends and the practical significance of the "Red Classics" TV drama. And from the lack of original resources, audiences, commercial value perspective the author analysesthe necessity of "Red Classics" TV drama adaptation.