Focusing on the time period since the late nineteenth century, this course aims to familiarize students with the dialogues, interchanges, as well as dissents between the disciplines of art, architecture, and cinema. With an interdisciplinary emphasis, we will explore various intersections between art, architecture, and cinema by studying several topics around which the conversations among the theories and practices of these disciplines especially intensified. We will consider how these key terms, themes, concepts, and preoccupations that gave way to spirited dialogues among disciplines – including modernities and modernisms, attractions, slapstick, design pedagogy, window, montage, apparatus theory, site-specificity, archiveology and the city, modernity’s ruins, institutional critique, and tensions between the white cube and the black box – have been inflected by historical, social, and cultural distinctions as well as expansions. At the same time, we will grapple with some of the motivations, resistances, and questions that scholars encounter as they attempt to shift and broaden modern disciplinary boundaries. There are no prerequisites. Perfect attendance and active participation in class is absolutely required. Assignments will include interdisciplinary readings, weekly forum responses on the readings, short weekly presentations of the readings, and a final presentation and paper.