Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cinema of Bengal
to Cinema of West Bengal. I looked for sources covering the "two cinemas" comprehensively and the best source that I could find is http://books.google.com/books?id=pzEdHF5UYcMC& Bengali Cinema: 'An Other Nation', Sharmistha Gooptu, Routledge, whose central thesis is defining/discussing Bengali vs pan-Indian/Hindi cinema and which argues against cinema analysis through the lens of "national cinemas". ''However'' even this work says "While the provincial towns of East Bengal provided a market for films produced in Calcutta, there was as such no development of the film industry there until after the country's independence from colonial rule in 1947" and covers the cinema of East Bengal/East Pakistan/Bangladesh only perfunctorily. http://books.google.com/books?id=djUFmlFbzFkC&pg=PA38& Several http://http://books.google.com/books?id=9OzzyZBZO-IC& other http://www.jstor.org/stable/4416013 sources also use "Cinema of Bengal/Bengali Cinema" to refer exclusively to the Calcutta centered film-industry in West Bengal, and the use of the term to cover the amalgam of West Bengal and Bangladesh based cinemas appears to be on-wiki |synthesis. Note that while
— User:Squeamish, 18:08, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:SYNTHESIS (Wikipedia:No original research)