title: The American Ruling Class
Class consciousness
Azealia Banks videography
Hanseaten (class)
Korean ruling class
Stevie (2002 film)
Cecilia Beaux
The Ruling Class (film)
Cultural hegemony
Wabenzi
sentences: The American Ruling Class is a 2005 dramatic documentary film written by Lewis H. Lapham and directed by John Kirby that "explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic."
 It seeks to answer the question, "Does America have a ruling class?"
 Its producers consider it the first "dramatic-documentary-musical."
 A rough-cut of the film was shown at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, the final version of the film was shown on the Sundance Channel in July 2007, and it had its theatrical premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2008.
Class consciousness is a term used in political theory, particularly Marxism, to refer to the beliefs that a person holds regarding their social class or economic rank in society, the structure of their class, and their class interests.
 It is an awareness that is key to sparking a revolution that would, "create a dictatorship of the proletariat, transforming it from a wage-earning, property-less mass into the ruling class" according to Karl Marx.
American rapper Azealia Banks has appeared in twenty music videos, two films, one television program and two commercials.
 As a teenager, Banks studied at the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.
 A film opportunity arose through the school, and at the age of fourteen, Banks featured in the film "The American Ruling Class", portraying a singer and a dancer in a cameo role.
 In 2010, Banks' first music video was released for a demo track titled "L8R", which would go on to be included on her debut mixtape "Fantasea" two years later.
 The following year, Banks' second music video was released for her breakout single "212", and has since amassed over one-hundred million views on Banks' official YouTube channel.
 During the promotional campaign of Banks' debut EP "1991", all songs on the project received a video treatment, including her sophomore single "Liquorice", shot by acclaimed director Rankin.
 Months after the video for "Liquorice" was released, an alternate version was leaked.
 In July 2012, Banks released her debut mixtape "Fantasea".
 To promote the mixtape, Banks released three music videos for tracks on the project, "Luxury", "Atlantis", and "Fierce", the latter being shot with clothing company ASOS.
The Hanseaten (] , "Hanseatics") is a collective term for the hierarchy group (so called "First Families") consisting of elite individuals and families of prestigious rank who constituted the ruling class of the free imperial city of Hamburg, conjointly with the equal "First Families" of the free imperial cities Bremen and Lübeck.
 The members of these "First Families" were the persons in possession of hereditary grand burghership ("Großbürgerschaft ") of these cities, including the mayors ("Bürgermeister "), the senators ("Senatoren "), joint diplomats ("Diplomaten ") and the senior pastors ("Hauptpastoren ").
 "Hanseaten " refers specifically to the ruling families of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, but more broadly, this group is also referred to as patricians along with similar social groups elsewhere in continental Europe.
The Korean ruling class refers to persons in contemporary South Korean society known for holding multiple offices in government, education, and the chaebol, stressing degrees from elite (especially American) universities, and reserving important positions for one another and their family members.
 According to social theory, this class protects and perpetuates itself by valuing family background, prestigious education, loyalty to friends/classmates/hometown, and chaebol wealth, while those excluded from the class are unable to access these prerequisites for class membership.
 Leaders of admired institutions, such as Samsung, are often insulated from criticism, but there is occasionally popular backlash against the perceived abuses of the elite class, such as the Korean Air "nut rage" scandal.
Stevie is a 2002 film by documentarian Steve James, and Kartemquin Films.
Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.
 She was a near-contemporary of American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France.
 Her sympathetic renderings of the American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.
The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film.
 It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes' satirical stage play "The Ruling Class" which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman (played by Peter O'Toole) who inherits a peerage.
 The film co-stars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour, James Villiers and Arthur Lowe.
 It was produced by Jules Buck and directed by Peter Medak.
In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society—the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that their imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm; the universally valid dominant ideology, which justifies the social, political, and economic "status quo" as natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class.
Wabenzi is an Anglicization of the pejorative Bantu colloquialism WaBenzi, originally used in Kenya to refer to members of the new ruling class that superseded the colonial regime, that has come to refer to the new ruling class in any post-colonial African country.
 The term usually refers to a corrupt government official, or family member of one, and derives from their being seen as driving an imported car.
 "Wa" is a prefix that refers to people in some Bantu languages; "benzi" comes from Mercedes-Benz, a car perceived as prestigious.
 The Anglicized form is more common than the original Bantu WaBenzi.

Question: Question: Is The American Ruling Class and Stevie a film? 

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 The American Ruling Class is a 2005 dramatic documentary film written by Lewis H. Lapham and directed by John Kirby that "explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic."
 It seeks to answer the question, "Does America have a ruling class?"
 Its producers consider it the first "dramatic-documentary-musical."
 A rough-cut of the film was shown at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, the final version of the film was shown on the Sundance Channel in July 2007, and it had its theatrical premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2008. 

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 Class consciousness is a term used in political theory, particularly Marxism, to refer to the beliefs that a person holds regarding their social class or economic rank in society, the structure of their class, and their class interests.
 It is an awareness that is key to sparking a revolution that would, "create a dictatorship of the proletariat, transforming it from a wage-earning, property-less mass into the ruling class" according to Karl Marx. 

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 American rapper Azealia Banks has appeared in twenty music videos, two films, one television program and two commercials.
 As a teenager, Banks studied at the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.
 A film opportunity arose through the school, and at the age of fourteen, Banks featured in the film "The American Ruling Class", portraying a singer and a dancer in a cameo role.
 In 2010, Banks' first music video was released for a demo track titled "L8R", which would go on to be included on her debut mixtape "Fantasea" two years later.
 The following year, Banks' second music video was released for her breakout single "212", and has since amassed over one-hundred million views on Banks' official YouTube channel.
 During the promotional campaign of Banks' debut EP "1991", all songs on the project received a video treatment, including her sophomore single "Liquorice", shot by acclaimed director Rankin.
 Months after the video for "Liquorice" was released, an alternate version was leaked.
 In July 2012, Banks released her debut mixtape "Fantasea".
 To promote the mixtape, Banks released three music videos for tracks on the project, "Luxury", "Atlantis", and "Fierce", the latter being shot with clothing company ASOS. 

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 The Korean ruling class refers to persons in contemporary South Korean society known for holding multiple offices in government, education, and the chaebol, stressing degrees from elite (especially American) universities, and reserving important positions for one another and their family members.
 According to social theory, this class protects and perpetuates itself by valuing family background, prestigious education, loyalty to friends/classmates/hometown, and chaebol wealth, while those excluded from the class are unable to access these prerequisites for class membership.
 Leaders of admired institutions, such as Samsung, are often insulated from criticism, but there is occasionally popular backlash against the perceived abuses of the elite class, such as the Korean Air "nut rage" scandal. 

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 Stevie is a 2002 film by documentarian Steve James, and Kartemquin Films. 

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 Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.
 She was a near-contemporary of American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France.
 Her sympathetic renderings of the American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era. 

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 The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film.
 It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes' satirical stage play "The Ruling Class" which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman (played by Peter O'Toole) who inherits a peerage.
 The film co-stars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour, James Villiers and Arthur Lowe.
 It was produced by Jules Buck and directed by Peter Medak. 

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 In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society—the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that their imposed, ruling-class worldview becomes the accepted cultural norm; the universally valid dominant ideology, which justifies the social, political, and economic "status quo" as natural and inevitable, perpetual and beneficial for everyone, rather than as artificial social constructs that benefit only the ruling class. 

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Answer: yes