The semiotics of Che Guevara : affective gateways /

"Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the 'Guerrillero Heroico' has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba. This book looks again at this well-known mass-produced image to explore how an image...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cambre, Maria-Carolina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
Series:	Bloomsbury advances in semiotics.
Subjects:	Guevara, Che, > 1928-1967 > Portraits. Korda, Alberto, > 1928-2001. > Guerillero heróico. Guerrillas > Latin America > Portraits. Guevara, Che, > 1928-1967 > Influence. Portraits > Political aspects. Portraits > Social aspects. Photographs > Political aspects. Photographs > Social aspects. Visual communication. Semiotics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics. RELIGION > General.
Online Access:	Cover image

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Stealing the image?
3. Virtual Resurrections : Che Guevara's image as place of hope
4. Revolution within : youth and the face of Che Guevara in Venezuela
5. Beyond semiotics : the agency of Che Guevara's image in East Timor
6. Alchemy : indigenous & artistic methods for understanding the work of Che's image
7. About face
8. The unfinished business of the Guerrillero Heroico : queering Che.