Cultural Studies is a young discipline. It appeared in academic structures in the 70s of the last century, that is when the study of culture has long been divided between older and more distinguished disciplines. Cultural studies had to somehow define in relation to existing cultural sciences. Cultural studies deconstructed opposition canonical and non-canonical art practice. Se Dealing with art outside the canon had and still has political dimension, as it draws attention to subcultures in which it sees the cultural expression of marginalized groups. We have no longer translated the English name “cultural studies” as “science of culture” or “knowledge of culture”. We do not examine culture in its numerous manifestations, high or low, but the cultural nature of various phenomena, for example gender. Three generations of researchers can be indicated in the not too long, nearly half century of Polish cultural studies. Cultural studies already has a certain academic tradition and it is still difficult for us to decide whether it is more of a new scientific discipline or new area of research?