Thinking in terms of approaching the subject of shame and humiliation in movies more formally it is appropriate to think in terms of references and theory.

The brilliance of Evelin Lindner's approach, as I see it, is her openness and the openness that focusing primarily on the concept of humiliation allows all of us who participate.

Why is this? First it is because humiliation is a universal human condition that no one wants to participate in. That said what exactly is it, how to describe it, what to do about it and what its origin are, all these questions are up for grabs.

Anyone around me for more than half an hour will find that I think someone has found the basic answer to most of these questions and that is Silvan Tomkisn. He carries the moniker the "American Einstein" with many of us. This is not given lightly. It is given because we think that he like Einstein came upon a unifying or a near unifying theory. Einstein of the outer cosmos and Tomkins of the inner cosmos, not Freud.  

I tell people that albeit I have studied a bit of relativity and from now and then think I might understand it at some level, certainly every time I review it I get new glimpses of it. So it is with shame and humiliation. And so much more for me now I add into the mix interest. I see it as a juncture of  humilation-interst-shame. Unlike relativity  that has no direct sensory bearing on any of us. That is we did quite well with out knowing about relativity in our day to day lives.  Shame, humiliation and interest affect us many times during every day. The first job is to just get us to think about it. Simply bringing the word "humiliation" into consciousness helps so much.

"The Big Screen" has done a great deal to help in this project unconsciously and here I turn to Tomkins. Tomkins focuses so much on the face and the theory that we are expressing affect constantly through changing facial expression. Major among these "affects" are "shame" and "interest".  

Well, actors are quite good at expressing emotion. Witness "Of Human Bondage". One of the earliest movies listed on my list yet one of the best, I think, at raw emotion. In the first clip Leslie Howard does a marvelous job in varying the expression of his shame.  My question is what was he thinking? Did he call it shame? How was he directed? I cannot imagine anyone on the set saying the words shame or humiliation.

In any event, now with movies we had ten foot giants with two foot heads beaming immense amounts of affect at us!

In any event it continues to amaze me, as I am sure it does most of us, how little literature there is, especially accessible literature there is, on this material.

I offer these resourses as a start:

http://www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/whoweare.php

brianlynchmd.com

http://www.tomkins.org/home/