"John Carpenter’s genre-defining Halloween was not to the first to use a stalking “creep’s eye” point of view for its opening scene (Bob Clark’s Black Christmas did something similar four years earlier)"

Doesn't have any agency? In the short story The Little Mermaid goes up to the surface of the water by herself, rescues the Prince from drowning, then goes to the most dangerous part of the ocean by herself to meet with The Sea Witch, makes the decision to consume the potion, then charms the Prince by dancing even…

I think a rationalization for collecting his acoustic songs might be: Most of the narratives written about Jack White are either "He's an amazing guitarist!" or "What a wacky purveyor of old-timey equipment!" And the fact that he's (in my opinion) a pretty amazing songwriter/lyricist gets buried. So this might be an…