Craig Terry
Craig was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a rising sophomore at Bucknell University and will declare a major in Film/Media Studies. At Bucknell, Craig has been active in many different clubs on campus including Film Club, Arts First, and Calvin and Hobbes. Also, he is employed in Bertrand Library as a Multimedia Consultant and Proctor in the Digital Video Editing Lab.
This summer, Craig worked as a Digital Summer Scholarship Research Fellow with librarians, Carrie Pirrman and Courtney Paddick. He also received help from other DSSRF participants Alexis Colon, Abby Dolan, and Nick Nam.
Craig has been interested in self-esteem and mental health in the African American community. As a film/media studies student, Craig has been interested in how cinema influences the public, specifically how films can influence certain ideologies and how movies use techniques to show subjectivity. As a result, this project interested him because mental illness portrayal is a big thing in the movies and subjectivity has been a tool used since German Expressionism of the 1920s. However, subjectivity is not always accurate and is mostly used for artistic purposes. To conduct this project, Craig did not focus on subjectivity but tried to focus more on reality.
This project is very important because it’s an analysis on inclusion because media is a very influential tool that can be used to perpetuate or eradicate stereotypes and the basis of this project is to show and challenge the perpetuation of stereotypes.