'Most texts today mix genres.' How true is this of your three main texts?

Post Modernism suggests that genres are often mixed, creating hybrids, parodies or films paying homage to a previous creation. The text District 9 is seen to support this statement, and this is evident in the films conventions conforming to those of both the Sci-Fi genre and Documentary-style genres. The text is therefore considered a hybrid of the two. 

The Sci-Fi genre is made significantly apparent during the film District 9, involving the typical conventions of aliens and humans co-existing, space travel and transformations of the body. Other, less obvious aspects of the Sci-Fi genre (for example a futuristic aspect) are made apparent in a subtle manner, with parts of the mise-en-scene making this factor apparent. Examples of these factors include the use of high-technological apparatus and the date at the beginning of the film being stated (as in the future). Other, more apparent conventions of such a gene are also made apparent, for example the co-existence of aliens. This, mixed with the aliens (or 'prawns') being documented in such a fashion supporting the conventions of a documentary-style genre creates a hybrid of two genres. The aliens and humans interact through both the documentary-style filming of the film and the smaller documentaries found throughout.

One scene in particular shows aspects of a documentary-style film, through the use of hand-held recording which follows the protagonist through corridors, from a higher camera angle which may be found to put him at a disadvantage in relation to his power. By being shot from a higher angles, Wikus (the protagonist) may be looked upon by the audience members as weak and lacking authority, which is how he is being represented at this point in the film. This angle, however remaining very short (approximately 2 seconds) in this shot, continues throughout the scene where Wikus is being examined and tested (against his will, again representing him as a weak person) by members of staff. THese characters are filmed in a juxtapositional manner in comparison to Wikus, putting them in a dominating and controlling position. The MNU logos around the scene present the audience with a large corporation, clearly being used to test humans (and maybe aliens) against their will. The scene shows Wikus to have a mutated hand, heavily supporting the convention of the Sci-Fi genre of body transformations., however the documentary-style genre is also supported in this scene through the use of